Monitoring spatiotemporal variation in abundance and dispersal by a pheromone-kairomone system in the threatened saproxylic beetles Osmoderma eremita and Elater ferrugineus

Journal of Insect Conservation

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 891-902

  Larsson, Mattias C ^a   Svensson, Glenn P ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coleoptera; Conservation; Population; Sex pheromone; Time series; Variability

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEETLE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISPERSAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; KAIROMONE; PHEROMONE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MODELING; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

COLEOPTERA; ELATER FERRUGINEUS; ELATERIDAE; HEXAPODA; OSMODERMA EREMITA;

EID: 80855144246     PISSN: 1366638X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10841-011-9388-5     Document Type: Article

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