Building wood debris piles benefits avian seed dispersers in burned and logged Mediterranean pine forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 260, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 79-86

  Rost, J ^a   Clavero, M ^a,b   Bas, J M ^a   Pons, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b Centre Tecnologic Forestal de Catalunya   (Spain)

Author keywords

Frugivorous birds; Pinus halepensis; Postfire management; Salvage logging; Seed dispersal; Winter bird community

Indexed keywords

PINUS HALEPENSIS; POST-FIRE; SALVAGE LOGGING; SEED DISPERSAL; WINTER BIRD COMMUNITY; WINTER BIRDS;

DEBRIS; ECOSYSTEMS; HISTORIC PRESERVATION; LOGGING (FORESTRY); PILES; SEED; WOOD;

BIRDS;

BIRD; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FOREST FIRE; FRUGIVORY; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LOGGING (TIMBER); MICROHABITAT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SALVAGING; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WOODY DEBRIS;

BIRDS; ECOSYSTEMS; FIBER DEBRIS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; LOGGING; MEDITERRANEAN; PINUS HALEPENSIS; PRESERVATION; SALVAGE; SEEDS; WOOD;

CATALONIA; SPAIN;

AVES; PINUS HALEPENSIS;

EID: 77953324308     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.04.003     Document Type: Article

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