Down in the flood? How moth communities are shaped in temperate floodplain forests

Insect Conservation and Diversity

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 389-397

  Truxa, Christine ^a   Fiedler, Konrad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Austria; Flooding; Floodplain forests; Herbivorous insects; Lepidoptera; Species composition; Species diversity; Stray species

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865419371     PISSN: 1752458X     EISSN: 17524598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2011.00177.x     Document Type: Article

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