Recovery of litter inhabiting beetle assemblages during forest regeneration in the Atlantic forest of Southern Brazil

Insect Conservation and Diversity

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 103-113

  Hopp, Philipp W ^a   Ottermanns, Richard ^a   Caron, Edilson ^b   Meyer, Stefan ^a   Roß Nickoll, Martina ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Coleoptera; Forest regeneration; Insect conservation; Mata Atl ntica; Old growth forest; Secondary forest; Soil type; Species density; Species richness

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952168161     PISSN: 1752458X     EISSN: 17524598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2010.00078.x     Document Type: Article

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