Dung beetle assemblage structure in Tswalu Kalahari Reserve: Responses to a mosaic of landscape types, vegetation communities, and dung types

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 811-820

  Davis, Adrian L V ^a   Scholtz, Clarke H ^a   Kryger, Ute ^a   Deschodt, Christian M ^a   Strmpher, Werner P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Assemblage structure; Dung; Kalahari; Landscape; Tswalu

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEETLE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MANURE; PITFALL TRAP; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; PARASITOLOGY; SOUTH AFRICA; SWINE; PIG;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; SOUTH AFRICA; SWINE;

NORTHERN CAPE; SOUTH AFRICA;

BOS; BOVIDAE; COLEOPTERA; MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES; SCARABAEIDAE; SCARABAEINAE; SUIDAE;

EID: 77953163399     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN09256     Document Type: Article

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