A comparison of three trapping methods used to survey forest-dwelling Coleoptera

European Journal of Entomology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 397-407

  Hyvärinen, Esko ^a   Kouki, Jari ^a   Martikainen, Petri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Abundance distribution; Beetles; Biodiversity inventories; Boreal forest; Coleoptera; Interception traps; Pitfall traps; Sampling; Species richness; Window traps

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEETLE; BOREAL FOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRAPPING;

COLEOPTERA; INSECTA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 33744467060     PISSN: 12105759     EISSN: 18028829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14411/eje.2006.054     Document Type: Article

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