Negative impacts of human land use on dung beetle functional diversity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Barragán, Felipe ^a   Moreno, Claudia E ^a   Escobar, Federico ^b   Halffter, Gonzalo ^b   Navarrete, Dario ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE HIDALGO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE CONSERVACIÓN DE LA BIODIVERSIDAD   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; BIOSPHERE; DUNG BEETLE; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; GRAZING; HABITAT; LAND USE; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; PASTURE; RAIN FOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL; BIOTA; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FECES; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

COLEOPTERA;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIODIVERSITY; BIOTA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FECES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; MEXICO; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79952956672     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017976     Document Type: Article

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