Relating landscape structure, environment and management to biodiversity indicators estimated from forest inventory data in Catalonia (NE Spain);Efectos de la estructura del paisaje, variables ambientales, y gestión forestal en indicadores de biodiversidad estimados a partir de parcelas de inventario forestal en Cataluña (NE España)

Investigacion Agraria Sistemas y Recursos Forestales

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 322-337

  Torras, O ^a   Martin Queller E ^a,b   Saura, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Forest biodiversity indicators; Landscape configuration metrics; Silvicultural treatments; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 75149117432     PISSN: 11317965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5424/fs/2009183-01072     Document Type: Article

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