Low local but high beta diversity of tropical forest dung beetles in Madagascar

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 886-894

  Viljanen, Heidi ^a   Escobar, Federico ^b   Hanski, Ilkka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Allopatric speciation; Madagascar; Resource limitation; Scarabaeinae; Species richness; Species turnover

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; INSECT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRAPPING; TROPICAL FOREST;

MADAGASCAR;

COLEOPTERA; MAMMALIA; SCARABAEINAE;

EID: 77957276945     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00552.x     Document Type: Article

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