The effects of wildfire on ground-active spiders in deciduous forests on the Swiss southern slope of the Alps

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 321-336

  Moretti, Marco ^a   Conedera, Marco ^a   Duelli, Peter ^a   Edwards, Peter J ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Araneae; Biodiversity; Fauna; Fire ecology; Fire regime; Forest fires; Post fire succession; Southern Switzerland

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPIDER; WILDFIRE;

SWITZERLAND;

ARANEAE;

EID: 0036098661     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2664.2002.00701.x     Document Type: Article

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