Macro- and microenvironmental factors affecting tyre-breeding flies (Insecta: Diptera) in urbanised areas

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 303-314

  Rubio, Alejandra ^a   Isabel Bellocq, María ^a   Vezzani, Darío ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Artificial containers; Chironomidae; Culicidae; Richness; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIVERSITY INDEX; INSECT; LARVA; ORGANIC MATTER; PROBABILITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION COVER; WATER;

ARGENTINA;

ARTHROPODA; CHIRONOMIDAE; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 84877618671     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/een.12016     Document Type: Article

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