Seasonally, dung specificity and competition in dung beetle assemblages in the Australian Wet Tropics, north-eastern Australia

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-8

  Vernes, Karl ^a   Pope, Lisa C ^b   Hill, Christopher J ^c   Bärlocher, Felix ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^d MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Checkerboard species pairs; Habitat selection; Mammal; Marsupial; Resource specificity

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); HABITAT SELECTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ALLOCASUARINA; BETTONGIA TROPICA; COLEOPTERA; EUCALYPTUS; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; SCARABAEIDAE;

EID: 13544258791     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S026646740400224X     Document Type: Article

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