How dung beetles respond to a human-modified variegated landscape in Mexican cloud forest: A study of biodiversity integrating ecological and biogeographical perspectives

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 377-389

  Rös, Matthias ^a   Escobar, Federico ^a   Halffter, Gonzalo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Biogeographical distribution pattern; Conservation; Landscape variegation model; Mexican Transition Zone; Scarabaeinae; True diversities

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLOUD FOREST; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MOUNTAIN REGION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRANSITION ZONE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; PUEBLA [MEXICO]; SIERRA MADRE; SIERRA MADRE ORIENTAL; SIERRA NORTE DE PUEBLA;

COLEOPTERA; SCARABAEINAE;

EID: 84858077127     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00834.x     Document Type: Article

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