Improving biodiversity indicators of sustainable forest management: Tree genus abundance rather than tree genus richness and dominance for understory vegetation in French lowland oak hornbeam forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue SUPPL., 2009, Pages

  Barbier, Stéphane ^a   Chevalier, Richard ^a   Loussot, Philippe ^b   Bergès, Laurent ^a   Gosselin, Frédéric ^a  

^a Cemagref   (France)

^b Chambre d'Agriculture de Seine et Marne   (France)

Author keywords

Bayesian count models; Deciduous forest; Equivalence tests; Model comparison; Ordered categorical data; Quercus; Temperate forest; Tree species

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN; BAYESIAN COUNT MODELS; DECIDUOUS FOREST; EQUIVALENCE TESTS; MODEL COMPARISON; ORDERED CATEGORICAL DATA; QUERCUS; TEMPERATE FORESTS; TREE SPECIES;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL TESTS; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE INDEX; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIODIVERSITY; DECIDUOUS FOREST; MODEL TEST; POLICY MAKING; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; TEMPERATE FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; FLUORINE; FORESTRY; HARDWOODS; PLANTS; POLYMERS; QUERCUS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TESTING; TREES;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

CARPINUS; QUERCUS;

EID: 71949121323     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.09.004     Document Type: Article

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