Long-term human impact and vegetation changes in a boreal forest reserve: Implications for the use of protected areas as ecological references

Ecosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1017-1036

  Josefsson, Torbjörn ^a   Hörnberg, Greger ^b   Östlund, Lars ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Forest ecosystem; Forest history; Interdisciplinary studies; Land use; Native people; Nature reserve; Pollen analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BOREAL FOREST; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CULTIVATION; DEFORESTATION; DOMESTICATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; LAND USE; NATURE CONSERVATION; NATURE RESERVE; PALYNOLOGY; REFERENCE SAMPLE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RUMINANT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

RANGIFER TARANDUS; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 70349678939     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-009-9276-y     Document Type: Article

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