Successional and seasonal changes in a community of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) in a Brazilian tropical dry forest

Natureza a Conservacao

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 160-164

  Neves, Frederico de Siqueira ^a,b   Oliveira, Victor Hugo Fonseca ^a   do Espírito Santo, Mário Marcos ^a   Vaz de Mello, Fernando Zagury ^c   Louzada, Júlio ^d   Sanchez Azofeifa, Arturo ^e   Fernandes, Geraldo Wilson ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF MONTES CLAROS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF LAVRAS   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Habitat complexity; Resource availability; Scarabaeidae; Secondary succession

Indexed keywords

EID: 82755189229     PISSN: 16790073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4322/natcon.00802009     Document Type: Article

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