Historical human influence on forest composition and structure in boreal Fennoscandia

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 872-884

  Josefsson, Torbjörn ^a   Gunnarson, Björn ^a,b   Liedgren, Lars ^c   Bergman, Ingela ^c   Östlund, Lars ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c The Silver Museum/The Institute of Subarctic Landscape Research   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION STRATEGIES; FENNOSCANDIA; FIELD SURVEYS; FOREST LANDSCAPE; FOREST STRUCTURE; HUMAN LAND USE; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MEAN AGES; NATURAL DYNAMICS; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; REFERENCE CONDITION; SCOTS PINE; TIME PERIODS; TREE SPECIES COMPOSITION;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATOLOGY; LAND USE;

FORESTRY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARCHAEOLOGY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LAND USE; PROTECTED AREA; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; STAND STRUCTURE;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; METEOROLOGY; SCANDINAVIA; UTILIZATION;

FENNOSCANDIA;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 77951996313     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X10-033     Document Type: Article

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