Primary Succession of Surface Active Beetles and Spiders in an Alpine Glacier Foreland, Central South Norway

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 2-15

  Bråten, Anders ^a   Flø, Daniel ^b   Hågvar, Sigmund ^c   Hanssen, Oddvar ^d   Mong, Christian ^e   Aakra, Kjetil ^f  

^a NORWEGIAN WATER RESOURCES AND ENERGY DIRECTORATE   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^e Box 82 ^*  (Norway)

^f Midt Troms Museum   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; FOOD CHAIN; FORELAND BASIN; GLACIATION; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; MOSS; PITFALL TRAP; PRIMARY SUCCESSION; SAMPLING; SPIDER; VEGETATION COVER;

ALPS; ARCTIC; NORWAY; PREALPS; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ARANEAE; BOURLETIELLA HORTENSIS; BRYOPHYTA; BYRRHIDAE; CARABIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; COLEOPTERA; COLLEMBOLA; POACEAE; STAPHYLINIDAE;

EID: 84859077848     PISSN: 15230430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1657/1938-4246-44.1.2     Document Type: Article

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