Dung beetles as indicators of tropical forest restoration success: Is it possible to recover species and functional diversity?

Biological Conservation

Volumn 169, Issue , 2014, Pages 248-257

  Audino, Lívia Dorneles ^a   Louzada, Julio ^a,b   Comita, Liza ^c,d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF LAVRAS   (Brazil)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Active restoration; Atlantic forest; Chronosequence; Functional traits; Pasture; Scarabaeinae

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; CHRONOSEQUENCE; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT RESTORATION; PASTURE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

ATLANTIC FOREST;

EID: 84890230331     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2013.11.023     Document Type: Article

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