Understorey vegetation in spruce-dominated forests in eastern Finland and Russian Karelia: Successional patterns after anthropogenic and natural disturbances

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 215, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 113-137

  Uotila, Anneli ^a   Kouki, Jari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Forest management; Forest succession; Life form groups; Natural disturbance; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY;

FOREST SUCCESSION; LIFE-FORM GROUPS; NATURAL DISTURBANCES; SEMI-NATURAL FORESTS;

VEGETATION;

BOREAL FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION; UNDERSTORY;

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTS; HERBS; LICHENS; MOSS; PLANTS; SHRUBS;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; KARELIA [(RPB) RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; NORTHERN EUROPE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SCANDINAVIA; WORLD;

BRYOPHYTA; MARCHANTIOPHYTA; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; POACEAE;

EID: 24944575553     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.05.008     Document Type: Article

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