Impact of the activity of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) inhabiting pasture land in Durango, Mexico

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1306-1312

  Anduaga, Sofía ^a  

^a Instituto de Ecologia AC Durango   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Dung beetles; Durango; Holistic resource management

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEETLE; PASTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

DURANGO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; CANTHON; CANTHON HUMECTUS; COLEOPTERA; DIGITONTHOPHAGUS GAZELLA; EUONITICELLUS; EUONITICELLUS INTERMEDIUS; GAZELLA; ONTHOPHAGUS; ONTHOPHAGUS KNULLI; ONTHOPHAGUS MEXICANUS; SCARABAEIDAE; SCARABAEINAE;

EID: 7744236545     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-33.5.1306     Document Type: Article

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