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Authors affiliated with Simon Fraser University, Department of Biological Sciences, Centre for Pest Management.
"March, 1996".
Text in English with summaries in English and French.
Résumé
"Research to establish a database of insect succession on buried carrion, in two geographic locations in British Columbia, was carried out starting June 1995. Exhumations took place at two weeks, six weeks, and three months after death at the Malcolm-Knapp Research Forest in the Vancouver Region and at the Alex Fraser Research forest in the Cariboo Region. A predictable sequence of insect succession occurs on buried carcasses which is different from the succession found on above ground carcasses. This can be used to determine an elapsed time since death in homicide cases. This research is immediately valuable in analyzing cases currently pending,as well as future cases."