Ant community responses to experimental fire and logging in a eucalypt forest of south-eastern Australia

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 188-197

  Andersen, Alan N ^a   Penman, Trent D ^a   Debas, Natacha ^a,b   Houadria, Mickal ^a,c  

^a BUSHFIRE COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^b AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Ants; Biodiversity; Fire; Forest management; Functional groups; Logging; South eastern Australia

Indexed keywords

ANT SPECIES; ANTS; COMBINED EFFECTS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; EUCALYPT FORESTS; FIRE FREQUENCIES; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; FORESTRY MANAGEMENTS; LOGGING; MICROHABITAT; PITFALL TRAPS; PRESCRIBED BURNING; PRESCRIBED FIRES; SELECTIVE HARVESTING; SELECTIVE LOGGINGS; SIGNIFICANT FACTORS; SOUTH-EASTERN AUSTRALIA; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENTS; TIMBER HARVESTING;

BIODIVERSITY; FIRES; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; LOGGING (FORESTRY); MANAGEMENT; TIMBER;

HARVESTING;

ANT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; EVERGREEN FOREST; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIRE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RESILIENCE;

BIODIVERSITY; EUCALYPTUS; FOREST FIRES; FORESTS; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; HARVESTING; LOGGING; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

FORMICIDAE;

EID: 65549127345     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.04.004     Document Type: Article

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