Responses of litter-dwelling arthropods to four different thinning intensities in Douglas-fir forests of the Pacific Northwest, USA

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 229-240

  Yi, Hoonbok ^a,b   Moldenke, Andrew ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; ARTHROPOD; BIODIVERSITY; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOREST FLOOR; GROWING SEASON; LITTER; MOISTURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; THINNING;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; UNITED STATES; WILLAMETTE NATIONAL FOREST;

ARTHROPODA; BRYOPHYTA; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 47349097543     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5735/086.045.0308     Document Type: Article

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