Evaluating buffer strips along boreal streams using bryophytes as indicators

Ecological Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 797-806

  Hylander, Kristoffer ^a   Jonsson, Bengt Gunnar ^a   Nilsson, Christer ^a,b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Boreal forests; Bryophyte; Buffer strips; Edge effects; Forestry; Habitat quality; Hepatic; Moss; Phytometer; Sweden

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; BRYOPHYTE; BUFFER ZONE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; LOGGING (TIMBER); RIPARIAN ZONE;

SWEDEN;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CALYPOGEIA INTEGRISTIPULA; HYLOCOMIASTRUM UMBRATUM; PTERIDOPHYTA; RIPARIA; TRITOMARIA QUINQUEDENTATA;

EID: 0242584981     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2002)012[0797:EBSABS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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