Maximising biodiversity in plantation forests: Insights from long-term changes in clearfell-sensitive beetles in a Pinus radiata plantation

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2842-2850

  Pawson, Stephen M ^a   Brockerhoff, Eckehard G ^a   Watt, Michael S ^a   Didham, Raphael K ^b,c,d  

^a SCION   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Canopy cover; Chronosequence; Coleoptera; Landscape ecology; Pitfall trapping; Time to recovery analysis

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CLEARCUTTING; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DISPERSAL; FOREST COVER; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GUIDELINE; HABITAT SELECTION; HARVESTING; INVASIVE SPECIES; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NATIVE SPECIES; PITFALL TRAP; PLANTATION FORESTRY; RECOLONIZATION; SAMPLING; SUCCESSION;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; PINUS RADIATA;

EID: 83555174774     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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