Response of beetles (Coleoptera) at three heights to the experimental removal of an invasive shrub, Chinese privet (Ligustrum sinense), from floodplain forests

Biological Invasions

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1573-1579

  Ulyshen, Michael D ^a   Horn, Scott ^a   Hanula, James L ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Biodiversity; Bottomland hardwood forests; Insects; Non native; Restoration; Temperate deciduous forests; Vertical distribution; Vertical stratification; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FLIGHT; FLOODPLAIN; FOREST CANOPY; HEIGHT; INVASIVE SPECIES; MACHINERY; REGENERATION; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATE FOREST; TRAP (EQUIPMENT); VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WETLAND;

UNITED STATES;

AMBROSIA; ARTHROPODA; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; LIGUSTRUM; LIGUSTRUM SINENSE; PLATYPODINI; XYLOSANDRUS CRASSIUSCULUS;

EID: 77952265757     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-009-9569-2     Document Type: Article

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