Management strategies to increase stand structural diversity and enhance biodiversity in coastal rainforests of Alaska

Biological Conservation

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 520-532

  Deal, Robert L ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Forest management; Old growth forests; Partial cutting; Red alder; Sitka spruce; Southeast Alaska; Stand structure; Western hemlock

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DECIDUOUS TREE; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; NATURE CONSERVATION; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PLANT COMMUNITY; RAINFOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STAND STRUCTURE;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ALNUS; ALNUS RUBRA; CERVIDAE; CONIFEROPHYTA; CONIUM; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; PICEA SITCHENSIS; TSUGA HETEROPHYLLA;

EID: 34249305542     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2007.03.014     Document Type: Article

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