Bird predation effects on bush canopy arthropods in suburban forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 257, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 619-627

  Gunnarsson, Bengt ^a   Heyman, Erik ^a   Vowles, Tage ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Araneae; Avian predation; Canopy living arthropods; Dermaptera

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; EXPERIMENTS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

ARANEAE; ARTHROPOD BIOMASSES; AUCUPARIA; AVIAN PREDATION; BIRD COMMUNITIES; BODY SIZES; CANOPY-LIVING ARTHROPODS; DERMAPTERA; FIELD EXPERIMENTS; FORAGING SITES; MANAGEMENT REGIMES; SMALL TREES; STUDY SITES;

BIODIVERSITY;

ARTHROPOD; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; FIELD METHOD; FOREST MANAGEMENT; PREDATION; SHRUB; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN FORESTRY;

ALNUS; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; AVES; DERMAPTERA; FRANGULA; FRANGULA ALNUS; SORBUS; SORBUS AUCUPARIA;

EID: 56649106454     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.09.055     Document Type: Article

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