Do space-for-time assessments underestimate the impacts of logging on tropical biodiversity? An Amazonian case study using dung beetles

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1098-1105

  França, Filipe ^a,b   Louzada, Julio ^a,b   Korasaki, Vanesca ^a,c   Griffiths, Hannah ^a,b,d   Silveira, Juliana M ^a   Barlow, Jos ^a,b,e  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF LAVRAS   (Brazil)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DE MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e MUSEU PARAENSE EMÍLIO GOELDI   (Brazil)

Author keywords

before after control impact; Brazilian Amazon; Chronosequences; land use change; rain forest; reduced impact logging; resampling; selective logging; space for time substitution; species diversity

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHRONOSEQUENCE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EXPLORATION; LAND USE CHANGE; RAINFOREST; SELECTIVE LOGGING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TURNOVER;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL;

COLEOPTERA;

EID: 84978374717     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12657     Document Type: Article

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