Environmental and geographical factors affecting the Iberian distribution of flightless Jekelius species (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae)

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 179-188

  Lobo, J M ^a   Verdu J R ^b   Numa, C ^b  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b Centro Iberoamericano de la Biodiversidad CIBIO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dispersion; Distributional predictive models; Flightless; Iberian endemics; Thorectes

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

COLEOPTERA; GEOTRUPIDAE; THORECTES;

EID: 33644822017     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2005.00214.x     Document Type: Article

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