Edge effects on ground beetles at the woodlot-field interface are short-range and asymmetrical

Agricultural and Forest Entomology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 395-403

  Roume, Anthony ^a,b   Deconchat, Marc ^a   Raison, Laurent ^a   Balent, Gérard ^a   Ouin, Annie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b UMR 1201 Dynafor   (France)

Author keywords

Beneficial insects; Carabidae; Coleoptera; Depth of edge influence; Forest agriculture interface; Nonlinear canonical analysis of principal coordinates; Temperate rural landscape

Indexed keywords

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 80054088417     PISSN: 14619555     EISSN: 14619563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-9563.2011.00534.x     Document Type: Article

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