A comparison of dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) attraction to native and exotic mammal dung

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 238-244

  Whipple, Sean D ^a   Hoback, W Wyatt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT KEARNEY   (United States)

Author keywords

exotic species; feeding preference; niche partitioning; Onthophagus; Phanaeus

Indexed keywords

BAIT; BEETLE; CAPTURE METHOD; CARRION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INVASIVE SPECIES; MAMMAL; NATIVE SPECIES; NICHE; PITFALL TRAP;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FECES; FOOD PREFERENCE; NORTH AMERICA; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; FECES; FOOD PREFERENCES; NORTH AMERICA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

GREAT PLAINS;

COLEOPTERA; MAMMALIA; ONTHOPHAGUS; PAN; PHANAEUS; SCARABAEIDAE;

EID: 84859711958     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN11285     Document Type: Article

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