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Using malaise traps to sample ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae).

Description: Pitfall traps provide an easy and inexpensive way to sample ground-dwelling arthropods (Spence and Niemela 1994; Spence et al. 1997; Abildsnes and Tommeras 2000) and have been used exclusively in many studies of the abundance and diversity of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Despite the popularity of this trapping technique, pitfall traps have many disadvantages. For example, they often fail to collect both small (Spence and Niemela 1994) and “trap-shy” species (Ben… more
Date: January 1, 2005
Creator: Ulyshen, Michael D., James L. Hanula, and Scott Horn
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Using malaise traps to sample ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae).

Description: Pitfall traps provide an easy and inexpensive way to sample ground-dwelling arthropods (Spence and Niemela 1994; Spence et al. 1997; Abildsnes and Tommeras 2000) and have been used exclusively in many studies of the abundance and diversity of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Despite the popularity of this trapping technique, pitfall traps have many disadvantages. For example, they often fail to collect both small (Spence and Niemela 1994) and à€œtrap-shy” species (Ben… more
Date: January 1, 2005
Creator: Ulyshen, Michael D., James L. Hanula, and Scott Horn
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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