Diversity and body size of dung beetles attracted to different dung types along a tropical land-use gradient in Sulawesi, Indonesia

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 53-65

  Shahabuddin, ^a   Hidayat, Purnama ^b   Manuwoto, Sjafrida ^b   Noerdjito, Woro A ^c   Tscharntke, Teja ^d   Schulze, Christian H ^e  

^a TADULAKO UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^b BOGOR AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^c Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense   (Indonesia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Coprophagous beetles; Food preferences; Forest margin; Habitat preferences; Land use changes; Species composition; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGROFORESTRY; BEETLE; BIOMASS; BODY SIZE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEFORESTATION; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT TYPE; LAND USE CHANGE; RAINFOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CENTRAL SULAWESI; INDONESIA; LORE LINDU NATIONAL PARK;

BOS; BUBALUS DEPRESSICORNIS; COLEOPTERA; THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 77952528170     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: 14697831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467409990423     Document Type: Article

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