Seasonal pattern of insect abundance in the Brazilian cerrado

Austral Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 132-136

  Pinheiro, F ^a   Diniz, I R ^a   Coelho, D ^a   Bandeira, M P S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Coleoptera; Diptera; Hymenoptera; Insect orders; Malaise tent; Pitfall; Savanna vegetation; Seasonality; Window trap

Indexed keywords

CERRADO; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; INSECT; PHENOLOGY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEASONALITY;

BRAZIL; FEDERAL DISTRICT [BRAZIL]; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; ISOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 0141801362     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-9993.2002.01165.x     Document Type: Article

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