Body size inequality of carabids along an urbanisation gradient

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 472-482

  Magura, Tibor ^a   Tóthmérész, Béla ^b   Lövei, Gábor L ^c  

^a UNIV OF HORT AND FOOD INDUSTRY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^c DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Gini coefficient; Globenet project; Ground beetles; Lorenz asymmetry coefficient; Skewness

Indexed keywords

CARABIDAE;

EID: 33746973795     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2005.08.005     Document Type: Article

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