Effect of fire on ground beetles and ant assemblages along an environmental gradient in NW Patagonia: Does habitat type matter?

Ecoscience

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 360-371

  Sackmann, Paula ^a   Farji Brener, Alejandro ^a  

^a LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Assemblage composition; Burning; Coleoptera; Environmental gradient; Formicidae; Patagonia

Indexed keywords

ANT; BEETLE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FIRE; PITFALL TRAP; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

ARTHROPODA; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 33749441429     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2980/i1195-6860-13-3-360.1     Document Type: Article

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