Diverging effects of overstorey conversion scenarios on the understorey vegetation in a former coppice-with-standards forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 256, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 519-528

  Van Calster, Hans ^a   Baeten, Lander ^b   Verheyen, Kris ^b   De Keersmaeker, Luc ^c   Dekeyser, Stijn ^a   Rogister, Jules E ^d   Hermy, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^d NONE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Disturbance regimes; Forest management; High forest; Litter quality; Secondary succession; Semi permanent plots

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; COMPOSITION EFFECTS; DISPERSION (WAVES); MANAGEMENT; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; SOILS; STANDARDS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

AVERAGE COMPOSITION; CANOPY COVER (CC); COMMUNITY IS; DECIDUOUS FORESTS; DIRECTIONAL CHANGES; ECOLOGICAL GROUPS; EDAPHIC CONDITIONS; ELSEVIER (CO); ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONING; EVEN AGED STANDS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST STRUCTURES; HERB LAYER; HERB LAYER SPECIES; HERBACEOUS LAYER; HERBACEOUS SPECIES; LITTER QUALITY; NEGATIVE EFFECTS; SPECIES COMPOSITIONS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPORAL CHANGES; TRADITIONAL MANAGEMENT; UNDERSTOREY; UNDERSTOREY VEGETATION; UNEVEN AGED;

FORESTRY;

BIODIVERSITY; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COPPICE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HERB; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LITTER; PLANTATION; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COPPICE; ECOLOGY; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST LITTER; FOREST MANAGEMENT; PLANTS; SOIL; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ANEMONE; ANEMONE NEMOROSA; FAGUS; HYACINTHOIDES NON-SCRIPTA; RUBUS FRUTICOSUS;

EID: 47049089531     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.04.042     Document Type: Article

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