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Saproxylic insects


  • Here are entered works on insects that depend on dead, dying, or decaying wood during some part of their life cycle.
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    • Wood-living insects
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    • found: Work cat.: Jonsson, M. Dispersal ecology of insects inhabiting wood-decaying fungi, 2002:abstr. (wood-living insects; saproxylic beetles) p. 9 (Saproxylic insects are species that depend on dead wood during some part of their lifecycle)
    • found: Johansson, T. The conservation of saproxylic beetles in boreal forest, 2006.
    • found: Speight, M.C.D. Saproxylic invertebrates and their conservation, 1989.
    • found: Stag beetles - love is all they need, via WWW, Feb. 25, 2008:glossary (Saproxylic: Pertaining to dead or decaying wood; Saproxylic Invertebrates: Species of invertebrates that are dependent, during some part of their life cycle, upon the dead or dying wood of moribund or dead trees (standing or fallen), or upon wood-inhabiting fungi, or upon the presence of other saproxylics)
    • found: Grove, S.J. Saproxylic insect ecology and the sustainable management of forests, 2002, via WWW, Feb. 25, 2008:abstr. (Saproxylic insects comprise a diverse, species-rich and dominant functional group that share a dependence on dead wood and the old trees that generate it (mature timber habitat))
    • found: The saproxylic community : Australian Invertebrates that inhabit rotting logs, via WWW, Feb. 25, 2008(Saproxylic refers to a lifestyle within rotting wood; saproxylic invertebrates)
    • found: Saproxylic beetles in a Swedish boreal forest landscape managed according to 'new forestry', 2006, via WWW, Feb. 25, 2008:abstr. (wood-living (saproxylic) beetles)
    • found: LC database, Feb. 25, 2008(saproxylic beetles)
    • notfound: Web. 3;McGraw-Hill dict. of sci. and tech. terms, c2003;Henderson's dict. of biological terms, 2000
  • General Notes

    • Here are entered works on insects that depend on dead, dying, or decaying wood during some part of their life cycle.
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    • 2008-03-14: new
    • 2008-03-15: revised
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