Short-term responses of beetle assemblages to wildfire in a region with more than 100years of fire suppression

Insect Conservation and Diversity

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 142-151

  Johansson, Therese ^a   Andersson, Jon ^a   Hjältén, Joakim ^a   Dynesius, Mats ^b   Ecke, Frauke ^a,c  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Dead wood; Forest management; Functional groups; Saproxylic species; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953804555     PISSN: 1752458X     EISSN: 17524598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2010.00114.x     Document Type: Article

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