Carabid community succession during the forestry cycle in conifer plantations

Ecography

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 614-625

  Butterfield, Jennifer ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE COMMUNITY; CONIFER; PLANTATION; SUCCESSION;

ENGLAND; UK;

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; PICEA SITCHENSIS; PINACEAE; TRECHUS OBTUSUS;

EID: 0031430808     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1997.tb00430.x     Document Type: Article

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