Assessing five decades of change in a high Arctic parasitoid community

Ecography

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1227-1235

  Timms, Laura L ^a   Bennett, Andrew M R ^b   Buddle, Christopher M ^a   Wheeler, Terry A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CEF   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; HERBIVORE; PARASITOID; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; WASP;

ARCTIC; CANADA; ELLESMERE ISLAND; NUNAVUT; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS;

AVES; HEXAPODA; ICHNEUMONIDAE;

EID: 84886789651     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.00278.x     Document Type: Article

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