Testing predictions of beetle community patterns derived empirically using remote sensing

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 138-147

  Lassau, Scott A ^a,b,c   Hochuli, Dieter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beetle community patterns; Habitat complexity; Predictive responses; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HABITAT; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SYDNEY;

COLEOPTERA;

EID: 37149052136     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00438.x     Document Type: Article

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