The uniqueness of habitats in old eucalypts: Contrasting wood-decay fungi and saproxylic beetles of young and old eucalypts

Tasforests

Volumn 18, Issue , 2009, Pages 17-32

  Wardlaw, T ^a,b   Grove, S ^b   Hopkins, A ^c   Yee, M ^a   Harrison, K ^d   Mohammed, C ^b,d,e  

^a FORESTRY TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b Co operative Research Centre for Forestry ^*  (Australia)

^c SCION   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 75149170915     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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