Impact of a reduced winter snowpack on litter arthropod abundance and diversity in a northern hardwood forest ecosystem

Biology and Fertility of Soils

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 413-424

  Templer, Pamela H ^a   Schiller, Andrew F ^a   Fuller, Nathan W ^a   Socci, Anne M ^a   Campbell, John L ^b   Drake, John E ^a   Kunz, Thomas H ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Hardwood forest; Hubbard Brook experimental forest; Litter arthropods; Northern forest; Soil fauna

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FLOOR; FREEZING; GROWING SEASON; INSECT; LITTER; SNOWPACK; SOIL FAUNA; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; WOOD;

UNITED STATES;

ACARI; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; CHILOPODA; COLEOPTERA; COLLEMBOLA; DIPLOPODA; DIPTERA; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; PSEUDOSCORPIONES;

EID: 84859747200     PISSN: 01782762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00374-011-0636-3     Document Type: Article

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