Native oak retention as a key factor for the conservation of winter bird diversity in managed deciduous forests in northern Italy

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 65-76

  Caprio, Enrico ^a   Ellena, Ivan ^a   Rolando, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bird community; Black locust; Class and landscape predictors; Forest cover; Forest fragmentation; Italy; Landscape pattern; Oak

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; BIOMASS; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FOREST COVER; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY PRACTICE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HABITAT TYPE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

AVES; QUERCUS;

EID: 58349116422     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-008-9280-1     Document Type: Article

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