Floristic and structural recovery of a laurel forest community after clear-cutting: A 60 years chronosequence on La Palma (Canary Islands)

Annals of Forest Science

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 109-119

  Bermúdez, Alfredo Manuel ^a   Fernández Palacios, José María ^a   González Mancebo, Juana María ^a   Patiño, Jairo ^a   Arévalo, José Ramón ^a   Otto, Rüdiger ^a   Delgado, Juan Domingo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Forest management; Laurel forest; Secondary succession; Species composition; Structure

Indexed keywords

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CLEARCUTTING; EVERGREEN FOREST; FLORISTICS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FLOOR; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LOGGING (TIMBER); MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SHRUB; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; LA PALMA; MACARONESIA; SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE [(PRV) CANARY ISLANDS]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 33847119557     PISSN: 12864560     EISSN: 1297966X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/forest:2006094     Document Type: Article

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