Beetle assemblages from an Australian tropical rainforest show that the canopy and the ground strata contribute equally to biodiversity

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1596, 2006, Pages 1969-1975

  Stork, Nigel E ^a   Grimbacher, Peter S ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Canopy crane; Coleoptera; Specialization; Species richness; Tropical forest insects

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; CANOPY; RAINFOREST; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; CANOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLYING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INSECT SWARM; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE SPECIES; SOIL PROPERTY; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BEETLES; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HOMING BEHAVIOR; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 34250659651     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3521     Document Type: Article

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