Intensive game keeping, coppicing and butterflies: The story of Milovicky Wood, Czech Republic

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 237, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 353-365

  Benes, Jiri ^a   Cizek, Oldrich ^a,b   Dovala, Jozef ^c   Konvicka, Martin ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c NONE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Butterfly conservation; Central Europe; Coppice management; Deer; Lepidoptera; Oak

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FORESTRY; WOOD;

BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION; COPPICE MANAGEMENT; DEER; LEPIDOPTERA;

BIODIVERSITY;

BUTTERFLY; COPPICE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

BIODIVERSITY; CENTRAL EUROPE; ENVIRONMENTS; FORESTRY; QUERCUS; WOOD;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; CERVIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA; OVIS ARIES MUSIMON; PAPILIONOIDEA; UNGULATA;

EID: 33751534895     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2006.09.058     Document Type: Article

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