Site effects outweigh riparian influences on ground-dwelling beetles adjacent to first order streams in wet eucalypt forest

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1999-2014

  Baker, Sue ^a,b   Richardson, Alastair ^a   Barmuta, Leon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b FORESTRY TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Headwater streams; Pitfall trapping; Riparian zone width; Site effects; Terrestrial beetles; Upslope habitat

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; RIPARIAN FOREST; RIPARIAN ZONE; SITE EFFECT; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

COLEOPTERA;

EID: 34249751489     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-006-9056-3     Document Type: Article

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