Managing the forest for more than the trees: Effects of experimental timber harvest on forest Lepidoptera

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 806-816

  Summerville, Keith S ^a  

^a DRAKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation; Forest management; Landscape; Logging; Moth; Selective harvest; Sustainable forestry

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISTURBANCE; DOMINANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE; LOGGING (TIMBER); MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MATRIX; MOTH; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STAND STRUCTURE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TAXONOMY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATERSHED;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORESTRY; LEPIDOPTERA; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; TREE;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTRY; LEPIDOPTERA; POPULATION DENSITY; TREES;

INDIANA; UNITED STATES;

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 79955504635     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0715.1     Document Type: Article

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