Fire residuals as habitat reserves for epigaeic beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae and Staphylinidae)

By K. Gandhi, J. Spence, D. Langor, L. E. Morgantini. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Insect Science

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Stand composition and structure of the boreal mixedwood and epigaeic arthropods of the Ecosystem Management Emulating Natural Disturbance (EMEND) landbase in northwestern Alberta (2004, background): “2002) and natural disturbances (Holliday 1991; Ghandi et al. 2001) in boreal regions.”
Arthropod biodiversity after forest fires: winners and losers in the winter fire regime of the southern Alps (2004, background): “Nevertheless, after repeated fires the shift of dominant numbers of individuals of ‘‘interior forest species’’ (� /53.7%) to ‘‘forest edge species’’ (� /29.5%) suggests that the current distribution and abundance of species, such as those of the forest interior, could have been historically limited ”
Interactions among fire, insects and pathogens in coniferous forests of the interior western United States and Canada (2006, background): “Studies by Gandhi et al. (2001) in western Alberta emphasized the importance of residual patches of unburned high-elevation coniferous forests left naturally by wildfires in providing important habitat patches for a number of surface-dwelling carabid and staphylinid beetle species (Coleoptera:…”
Short-term response of ground beetles (Coleoptera:Carabidae) to fire and logging in a spruce-dominated boreal landscape (2005, background): “Residual populations that are left following the disturbance may have an important impact on the recovery of the community (e.g. Gandhi et al., 2001), as the few forest species that are able to tolerate the newly open environment may proliferate as more specialized species are eliminated.”
REVIEW: Refuges for fauna in fire‐prone landscapes: their ecological function and importance (2013, background): “Deterministic refuges, including those of both natural and anthropogenic origin, are likely to have older, more mature vegetation than those arising stochastically, due to the lower probability of burning in the former (DeLong & Kessler 2000; Gandhi et al. 2001).”
Resolving conflicts in fire management using decision theory: asset‐protection versus biodiversity conservation (2010, background): “Patches of forest with low-flammability characteristics may normally remain unburnt during unplanned fires (Clarke 2002) and these can provide important refuges for species that otherwise would not survive in the more regularly burnt surrounding landscape (Gandhi et al. 2001).”
The effects of forestry on carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in boreal forests (2007, background): “…on current evidence, forest fragmentation and the size of a fragment appear not to be crucial for the survival of the majority of forest carabids, as they tend to be distributed over various successional stages (i.e. they are generalists; Ås 1993; Davies and Margules 1998; Gandhi et al. 2001).”