Logging and burning impacts on cockroaches, crickets and grasshoppers, and spiders in Jarrah forest, Western Australia

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 174, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 383-399

  Abbott, Ian ^a   Burbidge, Tom ^a   Strehlow, Karin ^b   Mellican, Amanda ^a   Wills, Allan ^a  

^a Bentley Delivery Centre   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Disturbance; Eucalyptus marginata; Fire; Silviculture; Soil litter arthropods

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS;

GRASSHOPPERS;

FORESTRY;

BURNING; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; INVERTEBRATE; LOGGING (TIMBER); SILVICULTURE;

AUSTRALIA;

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; BLATTARIA; EUCALYPTUS MARGINATA; GRYLLIDAE; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 0037450694     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(02)00058-0     Document Type: Article

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