Short-term response of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) to fire and logging in a spruce-dominated boreal landscape

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 212, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 118-126

  Saint Germain, Michel ^a,b   Larrivée, Maxim ^b,c   Drapeau, Pierre ^b   Fahrig, Lenore ^c   Buddle, Christopher M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Community response; Disturbance; Forest fire; Ground beetles; Logging

Indexed keywords

FIRE HAZARDS; LOGGING (FORESTRY); SAMPLING; SOILS;

ANIMAL COMMUNITIES; BOREAL FORESTS; HABITATS; SPECIES;

INSECT CONTROL;

BEETLE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DISTURBANCE; FOREST FIRE; LOGGING (TIMBER);

FIRES; FORESTS; INSECTS; LOGGING; MORTALITY; QUEBEC; SAMPLING; SOIL;

ANIMALIA; CALATHUS INGRATUS; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; PICEA; PTEROSTICHUS BREVICORNIS;

EID: 20444407315     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.03.001     Document Type: Article

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