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1997

Abstract

Skage Gård is a typical West coast farm. Its total area is 30 ha, with 23 ha of forest and 7 ha of fields (including 60 ha with christmas trees and 0,5 ha of greenery). The production of christmas trees started 35 years ago. Christmas tree sales make up 60-65 % of the farms income, and this percentage is expected to increase. Between 3,000 and 5,000 trees are planted each year and there are approximately 55,000 trees now in production. Most of these must be formed and trimmed

Abstract

Canonical correspondence analyses (CCA) of the beetle communities found in the polypore fungi Fomes fomentarius (L. ex Fr.) Kickx and Piptoporus betulinus (Bull. ex Fr.) Karst. from five localities in western Norway was applied to quantify the relative importance of various environmental variables. A total of 2266 adult specimens were identified to 57 species. Ecological qualities of different forest types were more important than qualities of the sporophores per se. The two polypore species have different communities of beetles, which can be explained by different habitat qualities offered by the two species. For F. fomentarius, the most explanatory variable turned out to be whether the sporophore was dead or alive. The sporophores weight at sampling time was the most explanatory variable for the beetles inhabiting P. betulinus.