Breeding birds in hemiboreal clear-cuts: Tree-retention effects in relation to site type

Forestry

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 503-516

  Rosenvald, R ^a   Lohmus A ^b  

^a ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; BREEDING POPULATION; CLEARCUTTING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HABITAT TYPE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BALTIC STATES; ESTONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE;

AVES;

EID: 38849144688     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: 14643626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpm027     Document Type: Article

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