Functional spatial scale of community composition change in response to windthrow disturbance in a deciduous temperate forest

Ecological Research

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 249-258

  Hirao, Toshihide ^a   Murakami, Masashi ^a   Oguma, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arthropod communities; Bird community; Environmental heterogeneity; Scale dependence; Tree fall gap

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CONNECTIVITY; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MODELING; TEMPERATE FOREST;

ARTHROPODA; AVES;

EID: 40349085657     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-007-0372-1     Document Type: Article

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