Responses of litter-dwelling spiders and carabid beetles to varying levels and patterns of green-tree retention

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 887-900

  Halaj, Juraj ^a   Halpern, Charles B ^b   Yi, Hoonbok ^c  

^a Cascadien Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropod community structure; Carabid beetles; Forest litter; Spiders; Variable retention harvest

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; TIMBER;

ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CARABID BEETLES; VARIABLE-RETENTION HARVEST;

BIODIVERSITY;

BEETLE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOREST EDGE; HARVESTING; LITTER; POPULATION DECLINE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPIDER;

ARACHNIDS; BIODIVERSITY; FOREST LITTER; FORESTRY; INSECTS;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 38949212518     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.09.083     Document Type: Article

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