Plant diversity in a managed temperate deciduous forest: Understorey response to two silvicultural systems

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1065-1079

  Decocq, Guillaume ^a   Aubert, Michaël ^b   Dupont, Frederic ^c   Alard, Didier ^b,d   Saguez, Robert ^a   Wattez Franger, Annie ^a   De Foucault, Bruno ^c   Delelis Dusollier, Annick ^c   Bardat, Jacques ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

^d UMR 1201 Dynafor   (France)

^e MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Disturbance regime; Forest management; Plant functional types; Redundancy; Resource availability; True forest species

Indexed keywords

DECIDUOUS FOREST; DISTURBANCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SILVICULTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

FILICOPHYTA; RUBUS; RUBUS FRUTICOSUS;

EID: 11144270948     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0021-8901.2004.00960.x     Document Type: Article

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