Short-term responses of ground-active beetles to alternative silvicultural systems in the Warra Silvicultural Systems Trial, Tasmania, Australia

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 444-459

  Baker, Susan C ^a,b   Grove, Simon J ^a,b   Forster, Lynne ^a   Bonham, Kevin J ^a   Bashford, Dick ^a  

^a FORESTRY TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CRC for Forestry ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Clearfelling; Coleoptera; Forest management; Green tree retention; Silvicultural systems; Variable retention

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; CLEARFELLING; COLEOPTERA; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GREEN TREE RETENTION; SILVICULTURAL SYSTEMS; VARIABLE RETENTION;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; HARVESTING; OCEAN HABITATS;

FORESTRY;

ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; BEETLE; CLEARCUTTING; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; EVERGREEN FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; PITFALL TRAP; SILVICULTURE; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; OCEANOGRAPHY; RETENTION; TREES;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; FUNGI; LEIODIDAE;

EID: 67649340816     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.03.044     Document Type: Article

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