Changing management in Scottish birch woodlands: A potential threat to local invertebrate biodiversity

Bulletin of Entomological Research

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 159-167

  Woodcock, B A ^a   Leather, S R ^b   Watt, A D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; GRAZING; LOGGING (TIMBER); SILVICULTURE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOMASS; BIRCH; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BETULA; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SCOTLAND;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; STAPHYLINIDAE;

EID: 0037386316     PISSN: 00074853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/BER2003227     Document Type: Article

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