Habitat fragmentation alters the structure of dung beetle communities in the Atlantic Forest

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 362-369

  Filgueiras, Bruno K C ^a   Iannuzzi, Luciana ^a   Leal, Inara R ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Diversity partitioning; Emergent trees; Forest fragmentation; Fragment size; Shade tolerant trees; Tree species richness

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; BODY MASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EMERGENCE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT TYPE; SAMPLING; SHADE TOLERANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ATLANTIC FOREST;

COLEOPTERA;

EID: 78751578995     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.09.013     Document Type: Article

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