Effects of timber harvest on forest Lepidoptera: Community, guild, and species responses

Ecological Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 820-835

  Summerville, Keith S ^a   Crist, Thomas O ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA); Clear cutting; Community composition; Disturbance; Landscape; Lepidoptera; Logging; Ohio; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; GUILD STRUCTURE; HARVESTING; LOGGING (TIMBER); MOTH;

OHIO; UNITED STATES;

INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0036628179     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2002)012[0820:EOTHOF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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