When the prairie varies: The importance of site characteristics for strategising insect conservation

Insect Conservation and Diversity

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 243-250

  Looney, Chris ^a   Caldwell, T Benjamin ^b   Eigenbrode, D Sanford ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bunchgrass; Dermestidae; Diversity; Fragmentation; Histeridae; Palouse; Prairie; Silphidae

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149105081     PISSN: 1752458X     EISSN: 17524598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2009.00061.x     Document Type: Article

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