Quantifying responses of dung beetles to fire disturbance in tropical forests: The importance of trapping method and seasonality

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  de Andrade, Rafael Barreto ^a   Barlow, Jos ^b   Louzada, Julio ^c   Vaz de Mello, Fernando Zagury ^d   Souza, Mateus ^d   Silveira, Juliana M ^c   Cochrane, Mark A ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF LAVRAS   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TRAPPING; ARTICLE; BAITED PITFALL TRAPS; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUNG BEETLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FIRE PROTECTION; FLIGHT INTERCEPT TRAPS; NONHUMAN; SAVANNA; SCRUB; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES HABITAT; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; ANIMAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FIRE; FLYING; SEASON; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

COLEOPTERA;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIODIVERSITY; FIRES; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEASONS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 80054723780     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026208     Document Type: Article

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