Microhabitat selection in an assemblage of crickets (Orthoptera: Ensifera) of a tropical evergreen forest in Southern India

Insect Conservation and Diversity

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 152-158

  Jain, Manjari ^a   Balakrishnan, Rohini ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Crickets; India; Microhabitat selection; Resource selection function; Tropical evergreen forest; Western Ghats

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953784303     PISSN: 1752458X     EISSN: 17524598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2010.00118.x     Document Type: Article

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