Altitudinal and seasonal variation in the family-level assemblages of flies (Diptera) in an Australian subtropical rainforest: One hundred thousand and counting!

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 315-331

  Lambkin, Christine L ^a   Boulter, Sarah L ^b   Starick, Noel T ^a   Cantrell, Bryan K ^a   Bickel, Dan J ^c   Wright, Susan G ^a   Power, Narelle ^a   Schutze, Mark K ^a,d   Turco, Federica ^a   Nakamura, Akihiro ^a,b   Burwell, Chris J ^a,b  

^a QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Altitude; Diptera; IBISCA Queensland; Malaise traps; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; FAUNA; FLY; POPULATION DECLINE; RAINFOREST; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY;

AUSTRALIA; LAMINGTON NATIONAL PARK; QUEENSLAND;

ASILIDAE; CHLOROPIDAE; DIPTERA; DOLICHOPODIDAE; DROSOPHILIDAE; EMPIDIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; MUSCIDAE; PHORIDAE;

EID: 84860000832     PISSN: 00798835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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