Morphological traits as predictors of diet and microhabitat use in a diverse beetle assemblage

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 301-310

  Barton, Philip S ^a,b   Gibb, Heloise ^c   Manning, Adrian D ^b   Lindenmayer, David B ^b   Cunningham, Saul A ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coleoptera; Convergence; Ecomorphology; Insect; Morphological diversity; Phylogeny; Principal components analysis

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONVERGENCE; DIET; DOMINANCE; ECOMORPHOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MICROHABITAT; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; HEXAPODA; SCARABAEIDAE; STAPHYLINIDAE;

EID: 78751530663     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01580.x     Document Type: Article

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