Scale-dependent effects of windthrow disturbance on forest arthropod communities

Ecological Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 189-196

  Hirao, Toshihide ^a   Murakami, Masashi ^a   Iwamoto, Jiro ^a   Takafumi, Hino ^a   Oguma, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arthropod diversity; Environmental heterogeneity; Functional spatial scale; Scale dependence; Tree fall gap

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARTHROPOD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOREST FLOOR; HETEROGENEITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TYPHOON; WINDTHROW;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

ARTHROPODA;

EID: 38149104718     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-007-0370-3     Document Type: Article

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