Limited surrogacy between predatory arthropods along an altitudinal gradient in subtropical rainforest

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 291-302

  Staunton, Kyran M ^a   Fellows, Christine S ^a   Kitching, Roger L ^a   Nakamura, Akihiro ^a,b   Burwell, Chris J ^a,b   Raven, Robert J ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARTHROPOD; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; FAUNA; PREDATOR; RAINFOREST; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; COLEOPTERA; FORMICIDAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84860000076     PISSN: 00798835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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