Fire frequency and mosaic burning effects on a tallgrass prairie ground beetle assemblage

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2301-2323

  Cook, William M ^a   Holt, Robert D ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 223 Bartram Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Carabidae; Fire frequency; Ground beetles; Pitfall trapping; Species richness; Tallgrass prairie

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIOMASS BURNING; GRAZING; PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE; PITFALL TRAP; PRAIRIE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

KANSAS; KONZA PRAIRIE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; MAMMALIA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 33745236083     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-004-8227-3     Document Type: Article

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