Restoration of natural legacies of fire in European boreal forests: An experimental approach to the effects on wood-decaying fungi

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 202-215

  Junninen, Kaisa ^a   Kouki, Jari ^a   Renvall, Pertti ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b Kuopion Luonnontieteellinen Museo   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DECAY (ORGANIC); FIRE PROTECTION; FUNGI;

DECAY PROCESSES; FIRE ELIMINATION; NATURAL LEGACIES;

FORESTRY;

BOREAL FOREST; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPENSATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIRE; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FUNGUS; LOGGING (TIMBER); PRESCRIBED BURNING; WOOD;

DECAY; ECOLOGY; FIRE PROTECTION; FORESTRY; FUNGI;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FENNOSCANDIA; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 40749133820     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X07-145     Document Type: Article

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