How will low-intensity burning after clear-felling affect mid-boreal insect assemblages?

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 363-372

  Hjältén, Joakim ^a   Gibb, Heloise ^a   Ball, John P ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Assemblages; Beetles; Biodiversity; Clear cuts; Prescribed burning; Saproxylic beetles

Indexed keywords

ANTHICUS; COLEOPTERA; CORTICARIA; DRUSILLA CANALICULATA; HEXAPODA; HYLOBIUS; OTIORHYNCHUS NODOSUS; PTEROSTICHUS ADSTRICTUS; STAPHYLINIDAE;

EID: 77953292191     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2009.12.012     Document Type: Article

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