Table 4 Response variable definitions for the two life stages of woodboring beetles analyzed in this study of 11 burned sites and five bark beetle outbreak sites sampled in the greater Sierra Nevada region of California, USA, during the summers of 2015 and 2016
Response | Definition |
|---|---|
Larval activity | Abundance of larval woodborer sign within a bark sampling quadrat, scored as 0 to 4 based on presence or absence of sign in each of four sub-quadrats |
Adult activity | Number of adult woodborers (by taxon) captured per trap-visit within a plot |