Dispersal as a key element of community structure: The case of ground beetles on lake islands

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 767-775

  Zalewski, Marcin ^b   Ulrich, Werner ^a  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Abundance; Carabidae; Co occurrences; Nestedness; Species area relationship; Wing polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEETLE; COEXISTENCE; NESTEDNESS; POLYMORPHISM;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; MAMRY LAKE; POLAND; WARMINSKO-MAZURSKIE;

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 33750479050     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2006.00283.x     Document Type: Article

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