Influence of boreal forest succession and dead wood qualities on saproxylic beetles

Agricultural and Forest Entomology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-16

  Jacobs, Joshua M ^a   Spence, John R ^a   Langor, David W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coarse woody debris; Coleoptera; Habitat associations; Insect conservation

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; PICEA;

EID: 33846552952     PISSN: 14619555     EISSN: 14619563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-9563.2006.00310.x     Document Type: Article

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