Exploring the " last biotic frontier": Are temperate forest canopies special for saproxylic beetles?

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 261, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 211-220

  Bouget, Christophe ^a   Brin, Antoine ^b   Brustel, Hervé ^b  

^a Cemagref   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Deadwood; Insect; Stratification

Indexed keywords

CANOPY SPECIES; DATA SETS; DEADWOOD; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOREST FLOORS; FOREST INSECTS; FRENCH FORESTS; INSECT; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; MICROHABITATS; SAMPLING STRATEGIES; SAPROXYLIC BEETLES; SPECIES INTERACTIONS; SPECIES RICHNESS; STRATIFICATION; TEMPERATE FORESTS; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONIFEROUS TREE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; DEAD WOOD; DECIDUOUS TREE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FLOOR; HABITAT TYPE; INTERCEPTION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MICROCLIMATE; MONTANE FOREST; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATE FOREST; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; DEAD WOOD; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; INSECTS;

ABIES; COLEOPTERA; FAGUS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 78649442427     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.10.007     Document Type: Article

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