Road kills: Assessing insect casualties using flagship taxon

Current Science

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 830-837

  Shyama Prasad Rao, R ^a   Saptha Girish, M K ^a  

^a Green Club   (India)

Author keywords

Butterflies; Insects; National parks; Road ecology; Road kills

Indexed keywords

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); HEXAPODA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 34147111841     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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