Guild-specific responses of forest Lepidoptera highlight conservation-oriented forest management - Implications from conifer-dominated forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 337, Issue , 2015, Pages 41-47

  Thorn, Simon ^a,b   Hacker, Hermann H ^c   Seibold, Sebastian ^a,b   Jehl, Hans ^a   Bässler, Claus ^a   Müller, Jörg ^a,b  

^a BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c ZOOLOGISCHE STAATSSAMMLUNG MÜNCHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ips typographus; Multi layered forest stand; Natural disturbance; Red list; Salvage logging; Single layered forest stand

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; FEEDING;

FOREST STAND; IPS TYPOGRAPHUS; NATURAL DISTURBANCE; RED LIST; SALVAGE LOGGING;

FORESTRY;

BIODIVERSITY; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GUILD; MOTH; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; RED LIST; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTS; LOGGING;

CONIFEROPHYTA; IPS TYPOGRAPHUS; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 84911164263     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.10.031     Document Type: Article

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