The role of semi-natural and abandoned vegetation patches in sustaining lepidopteran diversity in an organic olive orchard

Bulletin of Insectology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-22

  Scalercio, Stefano ^a   Iannotta, Nino ^a   Brandmayr, Pietro ^b  

^a CRA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Butterfly; Calabria; Diversity; Moth; Olive orchard; Species assemblage

Indexed keywords

LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 71049157558     PISSN: 17218861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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