Functional Roles Affect Diversity-Succession Relationships for Boreal Beetles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Gibb, Heloise ^a   Johansson, Therese ^b   Stenbacka, Fredrik ^b   Hjältén, Joakim ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TRAPPING; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BOREAL BEETLE; CHRONOSEQUENCE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY EVENNESS; COMMUNITY SLOPE; COMMUNITY SUCCESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETRITIVORE; DIET; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FUNGIVORE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MICROHABITAT; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SAPROXYLIC SPECIE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; SWEDEN; TAIGA; THREAT; ZIPF MANDELBROT DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIODIVERSITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWEDEN;

EID: 84882674069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072764     Document Type: Article

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