Linking deadwood-associated beetles and fungi with wood decomposition rates in managed black spruce forests

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1477-1490

  Jacobs, Jenna M ^a   Work, Timothy T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK SPRUCE; BLACK SPRUCE FORESTS; BOREAL FORESTS; CAUSAL MODEL; DECOMPOSITION RATE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; HARVESTED STANDS; MAIN EFFECT; MICROHABITATS; PARTIAL CUTS; PARTIAL CUTTING; PICEA MARIANA; POLYPORE; PRINCIPAL AGENTS; SAPROTROPHIC FUNGI; SAPROXYLIC BEETLES; SILVICULTURAL TREATMENTS; SPECIES COMPOSITION; STAND STRUCTURES; WOOD DECOMPOSITIONS;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; FUNGI; WOOD;

FORESTRY;

BEETLE; CLEARCUTTING; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DEAD WOOD; DECOMPOSITION; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FUNGUS; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; MICROCLIMATE; REACTION RATE; SAPROTROPHY; SAPROXYLIC ORGANISM; SILVICULTURE; STAND STRUCTURE; WOOD;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; FUNGI; PICEA MARIANA; WOOD;

COLEOPTERA; FUNGI; GLOEOPHYLLUM SEPIARIUM; HEXAPODA; PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 84864579224     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X2012-075     Document Type: Article

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