Microhabitats in lowland beech forests as monitoring tool for nature conservation

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 1251-1261

  Winter, Susanne ^a   Möller, Georg Christian ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Büro für Dendroentomologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assessing naturalness; Beech forest; Ecological continuity; Fagus sylvatica; Microhabitats; Monitoring forest biodiversity; Saproxylic beetles; Small scale habitats; Structure based indicators; Tree structures

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY;

ECOLOGICAL CONTINUITY; MONITORING FOREST BIODIVERSITY;

FORESTRY;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST INVENTORY; HETEROGENEITY; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MICROHABITAT; NATURE CONSERVATION;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

COLEOPTERA; FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA;

EID: 38949205243     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.10.029     Document Type: Article

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