Changes in food resources and conservation of scarab beetles: From sheep to dog dung in a green urban area of Rome (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea)

Biological Conservation

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 547-556

  Carpaneto, Giuseppe Maria ^a   Mazziotta, Adriano ^a   Piattella, Emanuele ^b  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Community ecology; Dung beetle assemblages; Food resources; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FECES; FOOD; LAND USE CHANGE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LAZIO; ROMA; ROME; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; COLEOPTERA; OVIS ARIES; ROMAN; SCARABAEIDAE; SCARABAEOIDEA; SCATOPHAGIDAE (FISHES);

EID: 14644417272     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2004.12.007     Document Type: Article

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