Tenebrionid beetle distributional patterns in Italy: Multiple colonisation trajectories in a biogeographical crossroad

Insect Conservation and Diversity

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 144-160

  Fattorini, Simone ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Endemism; Latitudinal gradient; Mediterranean biogeography; Peninsula effect; Pleistocene refugia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897627840     PISSN: 1752458X     EISSN: 17524598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/icad.12042     Document Type: Article

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