Biodiversity and resilience of arthropod communities after fire disturbance in temperate forests

Oecologia

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 312-327

  Moretti, Marco ^a   Duelli, Peter ^a   Obrist, Martin K ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fire regime; Functional groups; Invertebrates; Succession; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST FIRE; TEMPERATE FOREST;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; FIRE; PHYSIOLOGY; SWITZERLAND; TREE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIODIVERSITY; FIRES; SWITZERLAND; TREES;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

ARTHROPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33747073834     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0450-z     Document Type: Article

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