Species traits modify the species-area relationship in ground-beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblages on islands in a boreal lake

• Aaron J. Bell ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ajbell@ualberta.ca

  Affiliations Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Troutreach Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1765-7813

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• Iain D. Phillips ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Iain D. Phillips, Scott E. Nielsen

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Troutreach Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada, Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, Water Quality Services, Integrated Water Services, Water Security Agency of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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• Scott E. Nielsen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Iain D. Phillips, Scott E. Nielsen

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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• John R. Spence

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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