First-generation forests are not necessarily worse than long-term managed forests for lichens and bryophytes

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 231-239

  Lõhmus, Asko ^a   Lõhmus, Piret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Cryptogam; Dead wood; Dispersal; Hemiboreal forest; Structural restoration

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AFFORESTATION; BIODIVERSITY; BRYOPHYTE; DECIDUOUS TREE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT RESTORATION; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; LICHEN; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

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

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES;

EID: 44349116107     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2007.00266.x     Document Type: Article

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