The effects of wildfires on wood-eating beetles in deciduous forests on the southern slope of the Swiss Alps

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 85-103

  Moretti, Marco ^a   Barbalat, Sylvie ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Buprestidae; Cerambycidae; Coleoptera; Conservation; Forest fires; Landscape ecology; Lucanidae; Post fire succession; Species composition; Species richness; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPOSITION; DATA REDUCTION; FREQUENCIES; WOOD;

DECIDUOUS FORESTS; HABITAT MOSAIC;

FORESTRY;

BEETLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FOREST FIRE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

BUPRESTIDAE; CERAMBYCIDAE; COLEOPTERA; LUCANIDAE; QUERCUS;

EID: 0347317997     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(03)00314-1     Document Type: Article

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