Bugs reveal an extensive, long-lost northern tallgrass prairie

BioScience

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 49-59

  Hamilton, K G Andrew ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Leafhoppers; Oak savanna; Planthoppers; Tallgrass prairie

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEORRHYNCHA; AUCHENORRHYNCHA; CICADELLIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HETEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; QUERCUS;

EID: 12444333650     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2005)055[0049:BRAELN]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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