Carrion removal rates and diel activity of necrophagous beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) in a fragmented tropical rain forest

Many studies have analyzed the effect of forest fragmentation on dung beetle diversity in tropical landscapes. Few of them, however, have analyzed how forest fragmentation affects the assemblage structure of necrophagous beetles and their removal rates of carrion in tropical forests. This study comp...

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Auteurs principaux: Sandra Jimena Amézquita Melo, Mario Enrique Favila Castillo
Format: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Publié: Environmental Entomology 2011
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Accès en ligne:http://inecol.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1005/262