Prescribed fires and retention trees help to conserve beetle diversity in managed boreal forests despite their transient negative effects on some beetle groups

Insect Conservation and Diversity

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 93-105

  HyväRinen, Esko ^a   Kouki, Jari ^a   Martikainen, Petri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ephemeral resources; Forest fire; Herbivorous insects; Litter dwelling insects; Retention trees; Saproxylic insects

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349603115     PISSN: 1752458X     EISSN: 17524598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2009.00048.x     Document Type: Article

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