Biodiversity and sustainable forestry in changing landscapes - Principles and Southern Sweden as an example

Journal of Sustainable Forestry

Volumn 21, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 11-43

  Nilsson, Sven G ^a   Niklasson, Mats ^b   Hedin, Jonas ^a   Eliasson, Per ^a   Ljungberg, Håkan ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fagus; Fire history; Human impact; Invertebrates; Land use dynamics; Northwestern Europe; Quercus

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FIRES; HARDWOODS; LAND USE; MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

FIRE HISTORY; HUMAN IMPACT; LAND USE DYNAMICS; NORTHWESTERN EUROPE;

FORESTRY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; FOREST FIRE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE; PRESERVATION; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY;

BIODIVERSITY; FAGUS; FOREST FIRES; FORESTRY; INVERTEBRATES; LAND USE; QUERCUS; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT; SWEDEN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

FAGUS; INVERTEBRATA; QUERCUS;

EID: 33645777618     PISSN: 10549811     EISSN: 1540756X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J091v21n02_02     Document Type: Review

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