Current distribution of older and deciduous forests as legacies from historical use patterns in a Swedish boreal landscape (1725-2007)

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 260, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1095-1103

  Eriksson, Sofia ^a,b   Skånes, Helle ^b   Hammer, Monica ^a   Lönn, Mikael ^a  

^a School of Life Sciences Södertörn University   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Conservation; Heterogeneity; Management regime; Ownership; Remnant habitats; Sustainable forestry; Trajectory

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEITY; MANAGEMENT REGIME; OWNERSHIP; REMNANT HABITATS; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY;

TIMBER; TRAJECTORIES;

FORESTRY;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DECIDUOUS FOREST; HETEROGENEITY; HISTORICAL CARTOGRAPHY; HISTORICAL RECORD; OWNERSHIP; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RECONSTRUCTION; SATELLITE DATA; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; TRAJECTORY;

FORESTS; HARDWOODS; MAPS; SATELLITES; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

SWEDEN;

EID: 77955769490     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.06.018     Document Type: Article

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