A Checklist of Dung Beetles of Uttarakhand, Western Himalaya, India
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https://doi.org/10.36808/if/2020/v146i11/155466Keywords:
Dung Beetles., Himalaya, Biodiversity, Bio-Indicator.Abstract
This paper presents an attempt to build a complete dataset of the dung beetles recorded from Uttarakhand with an updated checklist. All the available literature on the dung beetles from Uttarakhand was investigated to obtain data. Altogether 104 dung beetle species are known from Uttarakhand covering 20 sampling sites falling in different altitudinal zone.References
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