Birds as indicators of sustainable forest management

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 61-66

  Venier, Lisa A ^a   Pearce, Jennie L ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biological indicators; Forest birds; Habitat modelling; Natural disturbance regimes; Population modelling; Sustainable forest management

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ITERATIVE METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RESEARCH; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOREST CONDITIONS; HABITAT MODELING; NATURAL DISTURBANCE REGIMES;

FORESTRY;

AVIFAUNA; BIOINDICATOR; FOREST MANAGEMENT; POPULATION MODELING; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY;

AVES;

EID: 2442572111     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc80061-1     Document Type: Review

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