Efficacy of pitfall trapping, winkler and berlese extraction methods for measuring ground-dwelling arthropods in moist-deciduous forests in the western ghats

Journal of Insect Science

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Sabu, Thomas K ^a   Shiju, Raj T ^a  

^a ST JOSEPH S COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Acariformes; Araneae; Blattaria; Chalcidae; Chilopoda; Coleoptera; Dermaptera; Diplopoda; Diptera; Forest floor arthropods; Formicidae; Hemiptera; Homoptera; Hymenoptera; Isopoda; Isoptera; Larva; Lepidoptera; Mantoidea; Orthoptera; Parasitiformes; Phasmida; Pseudoscorpionida; Psocoptera; quantitative and qualitative sampling; soil litter arthropods; Thysanoptera

Indexed keywords

ACARIFORMES; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; BLATTARIA; CHALCIDIDAE; CHILOPODA; COLEOPTERA; DERMAPTERA; DIPLOPODA; DIPTERA; FORMICIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; ISOPODA; ISOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; ORTHOPTERA; PARASITIFORMES; PHASMATODEA; PSEUDOSCORPIONES; PSOCOPTERA; THYSANOPTERA;

WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INDIA; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; TREE; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; ENTOMOLOGY; INDIA; POPULATION DENSITY; TREES; WATER;

EID: 77955189903     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15362442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1673/031.010.9801     Document Type: Article

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