Effect of stand age on bird communities in late-successional Macedonian pine forests in Bulgaria

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 257, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 580-587

  Nikolov, Stoyan C ^a  

^a Central Laboratory   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Bird habitat relationships; Bulgaria; Ecological guild; Forest succession; Habitat selection; Macedonian pine

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; OCEAN HABITATS; PARKS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VEGETATION;

BULGARIA; ECOLOGICAL GUILD; FOREST SUCCESSION; HABITAT SELECTION; MACEDONIAN PINE;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE; AGE CLASS; BIRD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; GUILD; HABITAT SELECTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; SUCCESSION; SUSTAINABILITY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; PARAMETERS; PINUS; PLANTS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT; WOOD;

BULGARIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; PIRIN NATIONAL PARK; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

AVES;

EID: 56649108002     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.09.030     Document Type: Article

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