Plantations and biodiversity: A comment on the debate in New Brunswick

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 265-269

  Betts, Matthew G ^a   Diamond, Antony W ^b   Forbes, Graham J ^b   Frego, Kate ^b   Loo, Judy A ^c   Matson, Bruce ^d   Roberts, Mark R ^b   Villard, Marc André ^e   Wissink, Renee ^f   Wuest, Lawrence ^g  

^a Hugh John Flemming Forestry Centre   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^c LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^d NB Department of Natural Resources   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

^f Fundy National Park   (Canada)

^g Fundy National Park ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Landscape scale; Plantations; Species composition; Stand structures

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA ACQUISITION; DEBRIS; ECOLOGY;

BIODIVERSITY LOSSES; FORESTRY CHRONICLES (2002); LANDSCAPE-SCALE BIODIVERSITY; SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION;

FORESTRY;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; PLANTATION FORESTRY; SILVICULTURE;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; PLANTATIONS;

CANADA; NEW BRUNSWICK; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 21044432477     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc81265-2     Document Type: Review

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