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Insect Conservation and Diversity

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 195-205

  Homburg, Katharina ^a,b   Homburg, Nils ^b   Schäfer, Florian ^b   Schuldt, Andreas ^a   Assmann, Thorsten ^a  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Body size; Dispersal ability; Habitat preference; Hind wing development; Taxon traits; Trophic level

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899990663     PISSN: 1752458X     EISSN: 17524598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/icad.12045     Document Type: Article

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