Identifying cost-effective indicators to assess the conservation status of forested habitats in Natura 2000 sites

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 256, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 815-826

  Cantarello, Elena ^a   Newton, Adrian C ^a  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation status; Cost efficiency; Forest biodiversity monitoring; Indicators; Natura 2000

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; EUROPEAN COMMISSION (CO); FOREST STRUCTURES; LITERATURE REVIEWS; MEAN VALUE (MV); MEMBER STATES; MONITORING METHODS; NATURA 2000; NATURAL HABITATS; PAIRED T TEST; POTENTIAL INDICATORS; TREE REGENERATION; VISUAL ASSESSMENTS; WILCOXON SIGNED RANK TEST; WILD SPECIES; WOOD VOLUME; Z SCORES;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION STATUS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPEAN COMMISSION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; STAND STRUCTURE; WILD POPULATION;

CANSIGLIO FOREST; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; HAMPSHIRE; ITALY; NEW FOREST; SOUTHERN EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; VENETO; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 46849085612     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.05.031     Document Type: Article

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