Impact of anthropogenic disturbances on beetle communities of French Mediterranean coastal dunes

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1837-1852

  Comor, Vincent ^a,b   Orgeas, Jérôme ^a   Ponel, Philippe ^a   Rolando, Christiane ^a   Delettre, Yannick R ^c  

^a AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Beach; Coleoptera; Insect; Pullulation; Tourism; Trampling; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEACH; BEETLE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DUNE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; SAMPLING; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; TOURISM; TRAMPLING; URBANIZATION;

BOUCHES DU RHONE; CAMARGUE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; PROVENCE-ALPES-COTE D'AZUR; WESTERN EUROPE;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; TENEBRIONIDAE;

EID: 46649113194     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-007-9290-3     Document Type: Article

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