Positive association between understory species richness and a dominant shrub species (Corylus avellana) in a boreonemoral spruce forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 260, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1407-1413

  Koorem, Kadri ^a   Moora, Mari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ellenberg indicator values; Facilitation; Litter layer; Picea abies; Temperate zone

Indexed keywords

FACILITATION; INDICATOR VALUES; LITTER LAYER; PICEA ABIES; TEMPERATE ZONE;

BIODIVERSITY;

FORESTRY;

BIODIVERSITY; CLEARCUTTING; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FACILITATION; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; LITTER; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PHYTOMASS; SEASONALITY; SHRUB; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; UNDERSTORY;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CORYLUS; FOREST LITTER; PICEA ABIES;

CORYLUS; CORYLUS AMERICANA; CORYLUS AVELLANA; PICEA; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 77956422996     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.07.043     Document Type: Article

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