Resource limitation of nesting: Chance favors the prepared dung beetle

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 188-196

  Gonzalez Megias A ^a   Sanchez Pinero F ^b  

^a School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dung beetles; Nesting; Ovarian condition; Resource availability; Sexual maturation

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BODY CONDITION; FECES; LIMITING FACTOR; MORPHOLOGY; NESTING; REPRODUCTION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEXUAL MATURITY;

ANDALUCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRANADA [ANDALUCIA]; GUADIX-BAZA BASIN; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

COLEOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; ONITIS; ONITIS ION; ONTHOPHAGUS; ONTHOPHAGUS MERDARIUS; SCARABAEIDAE;

EID: 1942438668     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-33.2.188     Document Type: Article

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