Saproxylic beetle assemblages of three managed oak woodlands in the eastern mediterranean

Zoology in the Middle East

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 55-66

  Buse, Jörn ^a   Levanony, Tal ^b   Dayan, Tamar ^b   Timm, Anika ^c   Assmann, Thorsten ^c  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Dead wood; Israel; Mediterranean; Middle East; Palestine Oak; Quercus calliprinos; Woodland structure

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; DEAD WOOD; GENETIC RESOURCE; NATURE CONSERVATION; SAPROXYLIC ORGANISM; SPECIES RICHNESS; WOODLAND;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MIDDLE EAST;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; QUERCUS; QUERCUS CALLIPRINOS;

EID: 58249138463     PISSN: 09397140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2008.10638307     Document Type: Article

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