Herbivorous Insect Response to Group Selection Cutting in a Southeastern Bottomland Hardwood Forest

摘要: Malaise and pitfall traps were used to sample herbivorous insects in canopy gaps created by group-selection cutting a bottomland hardwood forest South Carolina. The placed at the centers, edges, adjacent of different sizes (0.13, 0.26, 0.50 ha) ages (1 7 yr old) during four sampling periods 2001. Overall, abundance species richness insect herbivores greater centers young than edge or surrounding gaps. There no differences among old gap locations (i.e., forest), we collected significantly more communities similar forests them their respective locations, but two (surrounding gaps) had highest percent similarity all. Although both increased with increasing size, these not significant. We attribute numbers herbaceous plants available