Insect responses to invasive shrubs: Implications to managing thicket habitats in the northeastern United States

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 322, Issue , 2014, Pages 127-135

  Fickenscher, J L ^a   Litvaitis, J A ^a   Lee, T D ^a   Johnson, P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Early successional habitats; Insect abundance; Insect phenology; Insect richness; Invasive plants; Lepidoptera larvae

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; FORESTRY; PLANT EXPANSION;

EARLY-SUCCESSIONAL; INSECT ABUNDANCE; INSECT PHENOLOGY; INSECT RICHNESS; INVASIVE PLANTS; LEPIDOPTERA;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HABITAT LOSS; INSECT; INVASIVE SPECIES; MOWING; NATIVE SPECIES; PEST SPECIES; PHENOLOGY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION DECLINE; SHRUB; SHRUBLAND; SONGBIRD; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; TRAP (EQUIPMENT);

BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; PLANTS;

UNITED STATES;

ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; PASSERI;

EID: 84899896547     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.03.003     Document Type: Article

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