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The primary abstract specifies a six-year, surface-active beetle case study, the thinning-plus-prescribed-burn treatment, 289 Coleoptera taxa, and the post-treatment sub-canopy comparison behind the 21 and 35 counts. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Response of the surface-active beetle community (Coleoptera) to mixed-conifer forest restoration thinning and burning treatments in northern New Mexico, USA · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:38065d8e65e7964a64a6be0781ed2613585b2a4d7040a0af3af2eca5f19fdab6

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In this 6-year case study, we examined the response of a surface-active (epigeic) beetle community (Coleoptera) in a mixed-conifer forest subjected to tree thinning followed by a prescribed broadcast slash burn. We used a Before-After/Control-Impact (BACI) design to test treatment effects on the beetle community composition, diversity, richness, evenness, individual species abundances, and trophic structure. We documented 289 taxa of Coleoptera and found that treatments caused significant changes in the beetle community’s composition, with 21 common species increasing and 35 species declining in the more open post-treatment sub-canopy environment.

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