Vegetation recovery on closed paths in temperate deciduous forests

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 273-281

  Roovers, Pieter ^a   Bossuyt, Beatrijs ^a   Gulinck, Hubert ^a   Hermy, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Non metric multidimensional scaling; Trampling; Visual obstruction

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; RECOVERY;

MESOPHILES; NON-METRIC MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; RECOVERY PROCESS; SAMPLE LOCATION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS FOREST; TRAMPLING; VEGETATION RECOVERY; VEGETATION SURVEYS; VISUAL OBSTRUCTION;

VEGETATION;

ACCESS RESTRICTION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; SEED BANK; TRAMPLING; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS FOREST; VEGETATION;

EID: 12144269978     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2004.10.003     Document Type: Article

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