Changes in the dynamics of functional groups in communities of dung beetles in Atlantic forest fragments adjacent to transgenic maize crops

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 49, Issue , 2015, Pages 216-227

  Campos, Renata C ^a   Hernández, Malva I M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Behavior; Community diversity; Ecology; Indicators; Scarabaeinae

Indexed keywords

INDICATORS (INSTRUMENTS);

ATLANTIC FOREST; BEHAVIOR; COMMUNITY DIVERSITY; DUNG BEETLES; SCARABAEINAE; TRANSGENIC MAIZE;

ECOLOGY;

BEETLE; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOINDICATOR; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FRAGMENTATION; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; MAIZE; PEST SPECIES; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SEED DISPERSAL; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL; SANTA CATARINA;

COLEOPTERA; SCARABAEINAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84909952788     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.09.043     Document Type: Article

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