Urban forests sustain diverse carrion beetle assemblages in the New York City metropolitan area
Urbanization is an increasingly pervasive form of land transformation that reduces biodiversity of many taxonomic groups. Beetles exhibit a broad range of responses to urbanization, likely due to the high functional diversity in this order. Carrion beetles (Order: Coleoptera, Family: Silphidae) prov...
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PeerJ Inc.
2017-03-01
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Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/3088.pdf |