Experimental Analysis of Inter- and Intraspecific Competition in Dung Beetle Communities
- 1 February 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Animal Ecology
- Vol. 58 (1) , 129-142
- https://doi.org/10.2307/4990
Abstract
(1) Inter- and intraspecific competition for bovine dung by dung beetles which tunnel and bury dung beneath the dung pad (paracoprids) was examined using co-occ...This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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