The Invertebrate Fauna of the Wet Tropics: Diversity, Endemism and Relationships

Living in a Dynamic Tropical Forest Landscape

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 179-191

  Yeates, David ^a,c   Monteith, Geoff B ^b,c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Ecology and Management ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Altitudinal turnover and zonation; Biological and biogeographical highlights of Wet Tropics insect fauna; Invertebrate endemism in rainforest subregions of Wet Tropics; Invertebrate Fauna Of The Wet Tropics; Major threats to invertebrate faunas of Wet Tropics; Sphaenognathus australicus Moore (Lucanidae) rare stag beetle of Carbine Tableland; Wet sclerophyll forests eucalypt dominated fire maintained ecotonal vegetation type; Wet Tropics ground fauna

Indexed keywords

TROPICS;

ALTITUDINAL TURNOVER AND ZONATION; SPHAENOGNATHUS AUSTRALICUS MOORE (LUCANIDAE) - RARE STAG BEETLE OF CARBINE TABLELAND; VEGETATION TYPE; WET TROPICS;

ANIMALS;

EID: 47749132678     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444300321.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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