Effects of prescribed burning and wildfires on Orthoptera in Central European peat bogs

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 225-235

  Hochkirch, Axel ^a   Adorf, Frauke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b Büro für Landschaftsökologie und Geoninformation   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fens; Fire ecology; Insect conservation; Moorlands; Open land management; Wetland conservation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; COMBUSTION; ECOSYSTEMS; SOIL CONSERVATION; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

FIRE ECOLOGY; INSECT CONSERVATION; OPEN LAND MANAGEMENT; WETLAND CONSERVATION;

FIRES;

ABUNDANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; HABITAT SELECTION; INSECT; MOORLAND; NATURE CONSERVATION; PEATLAND; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RECOLONIZATION; TRANSITION ZONE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WETLAND MANAGEMENT; WILDFIRE;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; FOGO SELVAGEM; HABITAT; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPTERA; PEATLAND; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; VEGETATION;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; FENS; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; OMOCESTUS; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 36749028221     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: 14694387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892907004006     Document Type: Article

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