Rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) in yellow birch-dominated stands of southeastern Quebec, Canada: Diversity, abundance, and description of a new species

Canadian Entomologist

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 793-833

  Klimaszewski, Jan ^a   Langor, David ^b   Savard, Karine ^a   Pelletier, Georges ^a   Chandler, Donald S ^c   Sweeney, Jon ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b NORTHERN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DECIDUOUS TREE; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

CANADA; NEW BRUNSWICK; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

ATHETA; BETULA ALLEGHANIENSIS; BETULACEAE; COLEOPTERA; PICEA; PICEA RUBENS; PINACEAE; STAPHYLINIDAE;

EID: 38349071912     PISSN: 0008347X     EISSN: 19183240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4039/n06-057     Document Type: Article

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