Ground flora communities in temperate oceanic plantation forests and the influence of silvicultural, geographic and edaphic factors

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 476-494

  French, Laura J ^a   Smith, George F ^a   Kelly, Daniel L ^a   Mitchell, Fraser J G ^a   O'Donoghue, Saoirse ^a   Iremonger, Susan F ^a   McKee, Anne Marie ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Irish forestry; Sustainable forest management; Variance partitioning

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; GEOLOGY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CANONICAL CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS (CCA); EDAPHIC FACTORS; IRISH FORESTRY; VARIANCE PARTITIONING;

FORESTRY;

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FLORA; FOREST MANAGEMENT; PLANTATION FORESTRY; SILVICULTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STAND STRUCTURE; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

FORESTRY; PICEA SITCHENSIS; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CONIFEROPHYTA; FRAXINUS; FRAXINUS EXCELSIOR; LARIX; LARIX KAEMPFERI; PICEA SITCHENSIS; PSEUDOLARIX KAEMPFERI; RUBUS;

EID: 38949141205     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.09.014     Document Type: Article

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