Broad-scale geographic patterns in body size and hind wing development of western Palaearctic carabid beetles(Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Ecography

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 166-177

  Homburg, Katharina ^a   Schuldt, Andreas ^a   Drees, Claudia ^a,b   Assmann, Thorsten ^a  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BODY SIZE; COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENERGY BALANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLIGHTLESSNESS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLACIATION; MACROECOLOGY; PALEARCTIC REGION; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; REFUGIUM; WING;

NORTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

AVES; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84874982373     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07488.x     Document Type: Article

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