Rove beetles respond heterogeneously to urbanization

Journal of Insect Conservation

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 715-724

  Magura, Tibor ^a   Nagy, Dávid ^b   Tóthmérész, Béla ^b  

^a UNIV OF HORT AND FOOD INDUSTRY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Diversity; Forest specialist species; GlobeNet; Habitat affinity; Staphylinids

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIOINDICATOR; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; SPECIALIST; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUBURBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

DEBRECEN; HAJDU-BIHAR; HUNGARY;

COLEOPTERA; STAPHYLINIDAE;

EID: 84880507452     PISSN: 1366638X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10841-013-9555-y     Document Type: Article

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