Impact of windthrow and salvage-logging on taxonomic and functional diversity of forest arthropods

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 391, Issue , 2017, Pages 9-18

  Wermelinger, Beat ^a   Moretti, Marco ^a   Duelli, Peter ^a   Lachat, Thibault ^a,b   Pezzatti, Gianni Boris ^a   Obrist, Martin K ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b BERN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Insects; Saproxylic beetles; Similarity; Species richness; Timber harvest

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; LOGGING (FORESTRY); TIMBER;

DISTURBANCE; INSECTS; SAPROXYLIC BEETLES; SIMILARITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TIMBER HARVESTS;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE; ARTHROPOD; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; INSECT; SALVAGING; SIMILARITY INDEX; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TIMBER HARVESTING; WINDTHROW;

FORESTS; HARVESTING; INSECTS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

EUROPE;

ACULEATA; ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; COLEOPTERA; HETEROPTERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 85013209373     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2017.01.033     Document Type: Article

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