Tree Diversity Mediates the Distribution of Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in a Changing Tropical Landscape (Southern Yunnan, SW China)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Meng, Ling Zeng ^a,b   Martin, Konrad ^b   Weigel, Andreas ^c   Yang, Xiao Dong ^a  

^a KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c Rosalia Umweltmanagement ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CANOPY; CERAMBYCIDAE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLOW; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; MONOCULTURE; NONHUMAN; PLANT AGE; PLANTATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RICE; RUBBER INDUSTRY; SAVANNA; SCRUB; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES;

EID: 84884358221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075481     Document Type: Article

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