Impact of off-road vehicle use on dune endemic coleoptera

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 411-417

  Van Dam, Alex R ^a,b   Van Dam, Matthew H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coleoptera; Dune conservation; Off road vehicle; Pseudocotalpa

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DUNE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS;

ALGODONES DUNES; CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA;

EID: 40949132558     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0013-8746(2008)101[411:IOOVUO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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