Animal Movement in Heterogeneous Landscapes: An Experiment with Eleodes Beetles in Shortgrass Prairie
Functional EcologyPublished 1 January 1992
Thomas O. Crist, D. S. Guertin, J. A. Wiens, Bruce T. Milne
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The role of small-scale vegetation heterogeneity in determining the movement characteristics of darkling beetles was studied in a semi-arid grassland, with beetle movements strongly influenced by vegetation structure.
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T. O. Crist, D. S. Guertin, J. A. Wiens, B. T. Milne, Animal Movement in Heterogeneous Landscapes: An Experiment with Eleodes Beetles in Shortgrass Prairie, Functional Ecology, Vol. 6, No. 5 (1992), pp. 536-544
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