Forest fragmentation truncates a food chain based on an old-growth forest bracket fungus

Oikos

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 119-126

  Komonen, Atte ^a,b   Penttilä, Reijo ^c   Lindgren, Mariko ^d   Hanski, Ilkka ^a  

^a Div of Population Biology ^*  (Finland)

^b Eastern Steppe Biodiversity Project   (Mongolia)

^c Research Centre of Friendship Park   (Finland)

^d Division of Systematic Biology   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOOD CHAIN; FUNGUS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INSECT; OLD-GROWTH FOREST;

FINLAND;

AGNATHOSIA; AGNATHOSIA MENDICELLA; ANIMALIA; CINGULATA; DIPTERA; ELFIA; ELFIA CINGULATA; FOMITOPSIS ROSEA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; PICEA; POLYPORACEAE; TACHINIDAE; TINEIDAE;

EID: 0033854531     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.900112.x     Document Type: Article

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