Fire and biodiversity: Responses of grass-layer beetles to experimental fire regimes in an Australian tropical savanna

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 49-62

  Orgeas, Jérôme ^a,b   Andersen, Alan N ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Beetle assemblages; Bioindicators; Fire impacts; Landscape scale fire experiment; Northern Australia

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF MOLECULAR VARIANCE; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FIRE; HABITAT; INSECT RESPONSE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; SAVANNA; SEASON; SPECIES ABUNDANCE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ABUNDANCE; BEETLE; BIOINDICATOR; FIRE HISTORY; SAVANNA; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AUSTRALIA;

ARTHROPODA; CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; INSECTA;

EID: 0034917685     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2664.2001.00575.x     Document Type: Article

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