Long lasting impact of forest harvesting on the diversity of herbivorous insects

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 3931-3948

  Savilaakso, Sini ^a,d   Koivisto, Jenny ^a,b   Veteli, Timo O ^a   Pusenius, Jyrki ^c   Roininen, Heikki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d NONE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic disturbance; Diversity; East Africa; Kibale; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BUTTERFLY; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; HERBIVORY; LOGGING (TIMBER); MOTH; POPULATION DENSITY; PROTECTED AREA; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEASONALITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KIBALE NATIONAL PARK; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; UGANDA; WESTERN PROVINCE [UGANDA];

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; NEOBOUTONIA MACROCALYX;

EID: 71049180702     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-009-9689-0     Document Type: Article

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