Abundance and diversity of birch-feeding leafminers along latitudinal gradients in northern Europe

Ecography

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1138-1149

  Kozlov, Mikhail V ^a   van Nieukerken, Erik J ^b   Zverev, Vitali ^a   Zvereva, Elena L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BOREAL FOREST; DECIDUOUS TREE; HERBIVORY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; LEAFMINER; META-ANALYSIS; POPULATION DENSITY; RANKING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

NORTHERN EUROPE;

AGROMYZIDAE; BETULA PENDULA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84884702872     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00272.x     Document Type: Article

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