Impact of rubber plantation on carabid beetle communities and species distribution in a changing tropical landscape (southern Yunnan, China)

Journal of Insect Conservation

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 423-432

  Meng, Ling Zeng ^a,b   Martin, Konrad ^a   Weigel, Andreas ^c   Liu, Jing Xin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c Rosalia Umweltmanagement ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ground beetles; Land use change; Rubber plantation; Succession; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT TYPE; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE; PLANTATION; RARE SPECIES; RUBBER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION; TROPICAL FOREST;

CHINA; MEKONG RIVER; YUNNAN;

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 84860991953     PISSN: 1366638X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10841-011-9428-1     Document Type: Article

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