Initial response of butterflies to an overstory reduction and slash mulching treatment of a degraded piñon-juniper woodland

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 231-238

  Kleintjes, P K ^a   Jacobs, B F ^b   Fettig, S M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

^b Bandelier National Monument   (United States)

Author keywords

Butterflies; Juniperus monosperma; Lepidoptera; Overstory reduction; Pi on juniper woodlands; Pinus edulis; Restoration; Woodland thinning

Indexed keywords

FOREST; FOREST CLEARANCE; OVERSTORY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; THINNING;

NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS MONOSPERMA; LEPIDOPTERA; LOTUS; LOTUS WRIGHTII; PAPILIONOIDEA; PINUS EDULIS; TILLANDSIA LINEATISPICA;

EID: 3042546816     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1061-2971.2004.00212.x     Document Type: Article

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