Production land use alters edge response functions in remnant forest invertebrate communities

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3147-3161

  Campbell, Rebecca E ^a   Harding, Jon S ^a   Ewers, Robert M ^b   Thorpe, Stephen ^c   Didham, Raphael K ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Banks Peninsula; Coleoptera; Edge effects; Forestry; Habitat fragmentation; Land use change; Landscape management; Matrix contrast; Matrix edge interaction; Native forest; New Zealand; Plantation

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; BUFFER ZONE; CATCHMENT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EDGE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NATIVE SPECIES; PATCH DYNAMICS; PLANTATION FORESTRY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

NEW ZEALAND;

COLEOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84555208184     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-2390.1     Document Type: Article

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