Effect on disturbance type (fire and harvesting) on the ecological diversity of carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP.) forests of eastern Manitoba
Disturbance, especially fire, is a crucial part of boreal forest succession, returning the forest to return to an early successional stage. In the boreal forest, fire had been the main disturbance type on the landscape until advances in mechanical harvesting methods allowed for large scale harvestin...
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/7845 |