A relation between historical forest use and current dead woody material in a boreal protected old-growth forest in Finland

Silva Fennica

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 21-36

  Rouvinen, Seppo ^a   Rautiainen, Anne ^a   Kouki, Jari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Coarse woody debris; Forest utilization; Historical ecology; Land use history; Nature conservation; Picea abies; Pinus sylvestris; Populus tremula; Spatial pattern analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; LOGGING (FORESTRY); VEGETATION; WOOD;

FOREST CONSERVATION NETWORKS; MAN-MADE STUMPS; WOODY BIOMASS STRUCTURE;

FORESTRY;

NATURE CONSERVATION;

BIOMASS; FORESTS; LOGGING; WOOD;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; WORLD;

ABIES; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULA;

EID: 16844366968     PISSN: 00375330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14214/sf.393     Document Type: Article

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