Effects of buffer-strip retention and clearcutting on land snails in boreal riparian forests

Conservation Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1052-1062

  Hylander, Kristoffer ^a   Nilsson, Christer ^a,b   Göthner, Tove ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Buffer strip; Clearcutting; Green tree retention; Land snails; Riparian reserves; Terrestrial gastropods

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; BUFFER ZONE; CLEARCUTTING; RIPARIAN FOREST;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; GASTROPODA; RIPARIA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 4043061535     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2004.00199.x     Document Type: Article

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