Retention patches as potential refugia for bryophytes and lichens in managed forest landscapes

Biological Conservation

Volumn 142, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1125-1133

  Perhans, Karin ^a   Appelgren, Leif ^b   Jonsson, Fredrik ^b   Nordin, Ulrika ^b   Söderström, Bo ^a   Gustafsson, Lena ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Cryptogams; Forest management; Green tree retention; Indicator species; Red listed species; Variable retention harvesting

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BOREAL FOREST; BRYOPHYTE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LICHEN; REFUGIUM; RETENTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CALICIUM; HYLOCOMIASTRUM UMBRATUM; MARCHANTIOPHYTA; MICAREA;

EID: 62349085535     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.12.033     Document Type: Article

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