Dung Beetle Community and Functions along a Habitat-Disturbance Gradient in the Amazon: A Rapid Assessment of Ecological Functions Associated to Biodiversity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Braga, Rodrigo F ^a   Korasaki, Vanesca ^a   Andresen, Ellen ^b   Louzada, Julio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF LAVRAS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; BRAZIL; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUNG REMOVAL; ECOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST STRUCTURE; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; PASTURELAND; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SEED DISPERSAL; SOIL AND SOIL RELATED PHENOMENA; SOIL PERTUBATION; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; BRAZIL; FECES; GEOGRAPHY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84874513800     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057786     Document Type: Article

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