Responses of litter-dwelling arthropods and house mice to beech seeding in the Orongorongo Valley, New Zealand

Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 425-452

  Alley, J C ^a   Berben, P H ^a   Dugdale, J S ^b   Fitzgerald, B M ^c   Knightbridge, P I ^a,d   Meads, M J ^e  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c Ecological Research Associates of New Zealand Inc   (New Zealand)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

^e LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Flowering; Gymnobathra; Lepidoptera; Mast seeding; Mus musculus; Nothofagus menziesii; Nothofagus truncata; Oecophoridae; Spiders; Tingena

Indexed keywords

DIET; FLOWERING; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOREST SOIL; GYMNOBATHRA THOLODELLA; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LEAF LITTER; MITURGA; NEW ZEALAND; PLANT ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEED PREDATION;

POPULATION GROWTH; RODENT; SEEDING;

NEW ZEALAND;

GYMNOBATHRA; LEPIDOPTERA; MUS MUSCULUS; NOTHOFAGUS; OECOPHORIDAE; TINGENA;

EID: 0034885431     PISSN: 03036758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014223.2001.9517663     Document Type: Article

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