Aggregation in insect communities colonizing cattle-dung

Bulletin of Entomological Research

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 481-487

  Wall, R ^a   Lee, C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aggregation; Coleoptera; competition; cow dung; Diptera; dung decomposition

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; BEETLE; CATTLE; COEXISTENCE; COLONIZATION; FECES; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PASTURE; STOCHASTICITY; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; INSECT; LARVA; MANURE; PHYSIOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM; BOVINAE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENGLAND; INSECTS; LARVA; MANURE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BOS; BOVIDAE; COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

MANURE;

EID: 77955851543     PISSN: 00074853     EISSN: 14752670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007485309990502     Document Type: Article

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