Successional patterns of diversity in insect fauna on carrion in sun and shade in the Boreal Forest Region of Canada, near Edmonton, Alberta

Canadian Entomologist

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 376-383

  Hobischak, Niki R ^a   VanLaerhoven, Sherah L ^b   Anderson, Gail S ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CONIFEROUS FOREST; INSECT; LIGHT EFFECT; PIG; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ALBERTA; CANADA; EDMONTON; NORTH AMERICA;

CALLIPHORIDAE; CATOPS; CLERIDAE; COLEOPTERA; CREOPHILUS MAXILLOSUS; DIPTERA; INSECTA; LEIODIDAE; NECROBIA; ONTHOLESTES CINGULATUS; ONTHOPHAGUS NUCHICORNIS; PROTOPHORMIA TERRAENOVAE; SCARABAEIDAE; SILPHIDAE; STAPHYLINIDAE; SUS SCROFA; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

EID: 33748479693     PISSN: 0008347X     EISSN: 19183240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4039/N04-086     Document Type: Article

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