Scale-dependence of processes structuring dung beetle metacommunities using functional diversity and community deconstruction approaches

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Da Silva, Pedro Giovâni ^a   Hernández, Malva Isabel Medina ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BIOMASS; BRAZIL; CANTHIDIUM TRINODOSUM; CANTHON RUTILANS CYANESCENS; COMMUNITY DECONSTRUCTION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPROPHANAEUS SAPHIRINUS; DELTOCHILUM MORBILLOSUM; DELTOCHILUM MULTICOLOR; DICHOTOMIUS SERICEUS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL RECOLONIZATION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOREST; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

COLEOPTERA; SCARABAEINAE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; ENVIRONMENT; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84926672537     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123030     Document Type: Article

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