New insights into the consequences of post-windthrow salvage logging revealed by functional structure of saproxylic beetles assemblages

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Thorn, Simon ^a   Bässler, Claus ^a   Gottschalk, Thomas ^b   Hothorn, Torsten ^c   Bussler, Heinz ^d   Raffa, Kenneth ^e   Müller, Jörg ^a,f  

^a Nationalparkverwaltung Bayerischer Wald   (Germany)

^b University of Applied Forest Sciences Rottenburg   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Bavarian State Institute for Forestry Research   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; BODY SIZE DIVERSITY; CANOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAD WOOD; DECOMPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; ECOTYPE; EFFECT SIZE; FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY; HABITAT; HELIOPHILOUS SPECIES; LOGGING; MICROCLIMATE; NONHUMAN; PEST CONTROL; PREDICTION; SAPROXYLIC BEETLE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPRUCE; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION; WINDTHROW SALVAGE LOGGING; WOOD DIAMETER NICHE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; FORESTRY; GERMANY;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; GERMANY;

EID: 84904616151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101757     Document Type: Article

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