Land-use history affects understorey plant species distributions in a large temperate-forest complex, Denmark

Plant Ecology

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 221-234

  Svenning, Jens Christian ^a   Baktoft, Karen H ^a   Balslev, Henrik ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Ancient woodland; Ancient forest indicator species; Dispersal limitation; Forest history; Forest management; Historical factors

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DISPERSAL; FLORISTICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LAND USE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TEMPERATE FOREST; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WOODLAND;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 59849123741     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-008-9557-0     Document Type: Article

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