The importance of small-scale heterogeneity in boreal forests: Variation in diversity in forest-floor invertebrates across the succession gradient

Ecography

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 352-368

  Niemelä, Jari ^a   Haila, Yrjö ^b,c   Punttila, Pekka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; SUCCESSION GRADIENT;

FINLAND;

ARANEAE; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0030304534     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1996.tb01264.x     Document Type: Article

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