Urban Beetle Diversity in Natural History Collections—A Hundred-Year Perspective
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Museum Specimens Revision
2.3. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Faunistic Composition and Spatial Distribution
3.2. Chronology of the Records
3.3. Protected Species
3.4. Location Similarity
3.5. Change in Urban Areas over Time
4. Discussion
4.1. Benefits and Biases of Museum Collections and Citizen Science Data
4.2. Variation in Faunistic Composition
4.3. Change in Habitat
4.4. Potential Future Use of Museum Collections and Citizen Science Data
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Ružanović, L.; Mičetić Stanković, V. Urban Beetle Diversity in Natural History Collections—A Hundred-Year Perspective. Diversity 2023, 15, 1224. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15121224
Ružanović L, Mičetić Stanković V. Urban Beetle Diversity in Natural History Collections—A Hundred-Year Perspective. Diversity. 2023; 15(12):1224. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15121224
Chicago/Turabian StyleRužanović, Lea, and Vlatka Mičetić Stanković. 2023. "Urban Beetle Diversity in Natural History Collections—A Hundred-Year Perspective" Diversity 15, no. 12: 1224. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15121224