Detecting the effects of environmental change above the species level with beetles in a fragmented tropical rainforest landscape

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 66-79

  Grimbacher, Peter S ^a,b   Catterall, Carla P ^a   Kitching, Roger L ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aridity gradient; Coleoptera; Ecological monitoring; Habitat fragmentation; Invertebrates; Surrogacy; Taxonomic sufficiency; Tropical insects; Wet Tropics

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; BEETLE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FOREST CLEARANCE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFOREST; TAXONOMY; TROPICAL FOREST;

ATHERTON TABLELAND; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 38349125059     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2007.00937.x     Document Type: Article

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