Are streamside buffers edge-affected habitat for ground-dwelling forest beetle assemblages?

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 3467-3482

  Baker, Sue ^a,c   Barmuta, Leon ^b   Grove, Simon ^c   Richardson, Alastair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coleoptera; Conservation; Corridors; Epigaeic; Forest management; Streamside reserves; Wet eucalypt forest

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA;

EID: 84893684902     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-009-9655-x     Document Type: Article

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