Environmental tuning of an insect ensemble: The tenebrionid beetles inhabiting a Mediterranean coastal dune zonation

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 335, Issue 10-11, 2012, Pages 708-711

  Fattorini, Simone ^a,b   Santoro, Riccardo ^c   Maurizi, Emanuela ^c   Acosta, Alicia T R ^c   Di Giulio, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biotopes; Darkling beetles; Dune vegetation; Habitat directive; Insect communities

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; BEETLE; BIOTOPE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIVERSITY INDEX; DUNE; HABITAT USE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NATURAL SELECTION; PLANT COMMUNITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; VEGETATION TYPE;

ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOTOPE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INSECT ENSEMBLE; NONHUMAN; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SEASHORE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TENEBRIONIDAE; VEGETATION; ZONATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIODIVERSITY; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; POPULATION; SEASONS;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; TENEBRIONIDAE;

EID: 84870460566     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: 17683238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2012.09.009     Document Type: Article

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