Openness in management: Hands-off vs partial cutting in conservation forests, and the response of beetles

Biological Conservation

Volumn 141, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2310-2321

  Franc, Niklas ^a   Götmark, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coleoptera; Cutting; Forest succession; Management; Quercus; Reserve

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; EVERGREEN TREE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MICROCLIMATE; RED LIST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

COLEOPTERA; QUERCUS;

EID: 51249088148     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.06.023     Document Type: Article

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