Changes in clearcut management over time were evaluated using aerial photographs taken between 1960 and 2010. Temporal changes were analysed in two different climatic zones in Sweden: a typical boreal forest zone (the...
We are indebted to Dr Jari Niemela and Dr Tibor Magura for constructive suggestions on the experiment and providing important references. We are grateful to Mrs Xiao-Ping Zhou, Jin-Yan Huang, Shi-Qiang Zhou, Yuan-Jun Jiang, Shu-Ming Fan, Guo-You Li and You-Qian Yang (Wolong Natural Reserve, Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province) for assistance in field experiments. This study was supported in part by a State Key Basic Research and Development Plan from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (G2000046800), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30570215), a grant to the senior author (No. D/3684-1) of International Foundation for Sciences (IFS, Stockholm, Sweden), and National Science Fund for Fostering Talents in Basic Research (NSFC-J0030092).
The influence of edge effect on ground-dwelling beetles (Coleoptera) across a forest-clearcut ecotone was studied in Wolong Natural Reserve, southwestern China. During the field research, a total of 30 739 beetles w...