Field margins as rapidly evolving local diversity hotspots for ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in northern China

Coleopterists Bulletin

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 135-143

  Yu, Zhenrong ^a   Liu, Yunhui ^a   Axmacher, Jan C ^b  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEETLE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FIELD METHOD; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; PREDATOR; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WOODLAND;

ASIA; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; DONGBEIWANG; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 33845606366     PISSN: 0010065X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1649/854.1     Document Type: Article

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