Instability of copronecrophagous beetle assemblages (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) in a mountainous tropical landscape of Mexico

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1397-1407

  Halffter, Gonzalo ^a   Pineda, Eduardo ^a   Arellano, Lucrecia ^a   Escobar, Federico ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Alpha diversity; Beta diversity; Cloud forest; Fragmented landscapes; Scarabaeinae

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; CLOUD FOREST; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DISTURBANCE; GUILD STRUCTURE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MOUNTAIN REGION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION TYPE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; MEXICO; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; MEXICO; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

BOS; COLEOPTERA; INSECTA; SCARABAEIDAE; SCARABAEINAE;

EID: 40549098389     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2007)36[1397:IOCBAC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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