Scale dependence of effective specialization: Its analysis and implications for estimates of global insect species richness

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 115-125

  Gering, Jon C ^a   DeRennaux, Kelly A ^b   Crist, Thomas O ^c  

^a TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Miami University ^*  (United States)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Canopy fogging; Coleoptera; Effective specialization; Host specificity; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; HOST PLANT; HOST SPECIFICITY; INSECT; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; STAND DYNAMICS;

INDIANA; NORTH AMERICA; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA; INSECTA; QUERCUS;

EID: 33846061104     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2006.00301.x     Document Type: Article

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