Legacy of the past land-use changes and management on the 'natural' upland forest composition in the Apuseni Natural Park, Romania

Holocene

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 967-981

  Feurdean, Angelica N ^a   Willis, Katherine J ^a,b   Astaloş, Ciprian ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Satu Mare County Museum   (Romania)

Author keywords

Climate; Cultural landscape; Fire; Forest dynamics; Human disturbances; Land use changes; Palaeoecology; Past forest management; Romania

Indexed keywords

BURNING; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HISTORICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PALEOECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; UPLAND REGION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

APUSENI NATIONAL PARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ABIES; ABIES ALBA; ALNUS; BETULA; CARPINUS BETULUS; FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; FRAXINUS; FRAXINUS EXCELSIOR; MALVACEAE; PICEA ABIES; QUERCUS; TILIA; ULMUS;

EID: 70249149343     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683609337358     Document Type: Article

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