Northern temperate coastal sitka spruce forests with special emphasis on canopies: Studying arthropods in an unexplored frontier

Northwest Science

Volumn 70, Issue SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 94-103

  Winchester, Neville N ^a   Ring, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOREST CANOPY; OLD-GROWTH FOREST;

CANADA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, VANCOUVER ISLAND, CARMANAH VALLEY;

ARTHROPODA; COLEOPTERA; PICEA SITCHENSIS; PINACEAE; STAPHYLINIDAE;

EID: 0029660983     PISSN: 0029344X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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