Learning from a " benign neglect strategy" in a national park: Response of saproxylic beetles to dead wood accumulation

Biological Conservation

Volumn 143, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2559-2569

  Müller, Jörg ^a   Noss, Reed F ^b   Bussler, Heinz ^c   Brandl, Roland ^d  

^a BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture   (Germany)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bark beetle; Bavarian Forest National Park; Forest dynamics; Ips typographus; Rewilding; Salvage logging; Threatened species

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEETLE; BIOINDICATOR; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEAD WOOD; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FUELWOOD; GRADIENT ANALYSIS; MONTANE FOREST; NATIONAL PARK; RED LIST; SAPROXYLIC ORGANISM; SPECIALIST; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BAVARIA; BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK; GERMANY;

COLEOPTERA; CONIFEROPHYTA; IPS TYPOGRAPHUS; PICEA; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 77956878730     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.06.024     Document Type: Article

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