Soil Arthropod Populations of the New Jersey Pine Barrens as Affected by Fire1
- 15 May 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Annals of the Entomological Society of America
- Vol. 60 (3) , 530-535
- https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/60.3.530
Abstract
The Pine Barrens of New Jersey may be regarded as a fire-maintained subclimax. The effects of a 1963 fire on the populations of invertebrate animals of the forest floor were investigated by comparing the fauna of areas which had been burned with that of unburned areas, approximately 1 year after this fire. Both numbers of taxa and numbers of individuals were significantly less in the burned-over area. Ants appeared to be least severely affected, with 2 species appearing more abundant in the burned than in the unburned areas.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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- The Ecological Role of Prescribed Burns in the Pine‐Oak Forests of Southern New JerseyEcology, 1949
- Some Changes in the Soil Fauna Associated with Forest Fires in the Longleaf Pine RegionEcology, 1936
- Concerning a Geological Explanation of the Origin and Present Distribution of the New Jersey Pine Barren VegetationEcology, 1934