Longer-term effects of selective thinning on carabid beetles and spiders in the Cascade Mountains of southern Oregon

Northwest Science

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 267-277

  Peck, Robert ^a,b   Niwa, Christine G ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; STAND STRUCTURE; THINNING;

CASCADE RANGE; NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ARANEAE; CARABIDAE; CARABUS TAEDATUS; CICINDELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; DICTYNIDAE; GNAPHOSIDAE; HAHNIIDAE; LINYPHIIDAE; LYCOSIDAE; OMUS; PTEROSTICHUS LAMA; PTEROSTICHUS SETOSUS;

EID: 13644268552     PISSN: 0029344X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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