Manipulated structural variability affects the habitat choice of two ground-living beetle species in a laboratory experiment

Entomologica Fennica

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 122-128

  Nittérus, Karolina ^a   Gunnarsson, Åsa ^b   Gunnarsson, Bengt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; CARABIDAE; CARABUS HORTENSIS; COLEOPTERA; PTEROSTICHUS OBLONGOPUNCTATUS;

EID: 47649098533     PISSN: 07858760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.33338/ef.84423     Document Type: Article

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