Seasonality of a diverse beetle assemblage inhabiting lowland tropical rain forest in australia

Biotropica

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 328-337

  Grimbacher, Peter S ^a,b   Stork, Nigel E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Burnley Campus ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Coleoptera; Feeding guild; Phenology; Spatiotemporal dynamics; Temporal partitioning; Time series; Vertical stratification; Wet Tropics

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEETLE; BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FEEDING ECOLOGY; HERBIVORE; PHENOLOGY; RAINFOREST; SEASONALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TIME SERIES;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CAPE TRIBULATION; QUEENSLAND;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 65349087896     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2008.00477.x     Document Type: Article

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