Dung beetle assemblages on tropical land-bridge islands: Small island effect and vulnerable species

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 792-804

  Qie, Lan ^a,b   Lee, Tien Ming ^c,d   Sodhi, Navjot S ^a   Lim, Susan L H ^e  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Coleoptera; Dispersal limitation; Forest fragmentation; Peninsular Malaysia; Rarity; Regression tree; Scarabaeidae; Species traits; Species area relationship; Tree basal area

Indexed keywords

BASAL AREA; BEETLE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISPERSAL; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ISLAND; LAND BRIDGE; LINEARITY; LOCAL EXTINCTION; NESTEDNESS; PITFALL TRAP; RARITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESERVOIR; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; VULNERABILITY;

KENYIR LAKE; MALAYSIA; TERENGGANU; WEST MALAYSIA;

COLEOPTERA; SCARABAEIDAE; SCARABAEINAE;

EID: 79952689317     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02439.x     Document Type: Article

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