Diversity of carrion visiting beetles at rural and urban sites

Community Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 171-181

  Ulrich, W ^a   Zalewski, M ^b   Komosinski K ^c  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Carcass; Coleoptera; Destruents; Disturbance; Diversity; Homogenization; Predators; Species Abundance distribution

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEETLE; BUTTERFLY; CARRION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; GUILD; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDATOR; RURAL AREA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

ANIMALIA; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; PAPILIONOIDEA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 37649017371     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: 15882756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.8.2007.2.4     Document Type: Article

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