Traditional forest management: Do carabid beetles respond to human-created vegetation structures in an oak mosaic landscape?

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 237, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 436-449

  Taboada, Angela ^a   Kotze, D Johan ^b   Tárrega, Reyes ^a   Salgado, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Carabidae; Forest management; Land use history; Oak forest; Quercus pyrenaica; Understorey vegetation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; LAND USE; VEGETATION;

CARABIDAE; HABITATS; OAK FORESTS; UNDERSTOREY VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

BEETLE; DECIDUOUS TREE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; INSECTS; LAND USE; PLANTS; QUERCUS PYRENAICA;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; QUERCUS PYRENAICA;

EID: 33751538257     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2006.09.077     Document Type: Article

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