Factors and scales potentially important for saproxylic beetles in temperate mixed oak forest

Biological Conservation

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 86-98

  Franc, Niklas ^a   Götmark, Frank ^a   Økland, Bjørn ^b   Nordén, Björn ^a   Paltto, Heidi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Coleoptera; Conservation; Dead wood; Deciduous forest; Quercus

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; DEAD WOOD; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; MIXED FOREST; SPECIES RICHNESS;

COLEOPTERA; QUERCUS;

EID: 33845390578     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2006.09.021     Document Type: Article

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