Optimising Bait for Pitfall Trapping of Amazonian Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Marsh, Charles J ^a,c   Louzada, Julio ^b   Beiroz, Wallace ^b   Ewers, Robert M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF LAVRAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TRAPPING; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUNG BEETLE; MANURE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; BREEDING; FECES; HUMANS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 84883343427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073147     Document Type: Article

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