Environmental features influencing Carabid beetle (Coleoptera) assemblages along a recently deglaciated area in the Alpine region

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 682-689

  Gobbi, Mauro ^a   Rossaro, Bruno ^a   Vater, Amber ^b   De Bernardi, Fiorenza ^a   Pelfini, Manuela ^a   Brandmayr, Pietro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Body length; Climate change; Forni Glacier; Ground beetles; Wing morphology

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BEETLE; DEGLACIATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HABITAT TYPE; MORPHOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 36448936410     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2007.00912.x     Document Type: Article

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