Effect of forest clear-cutting on subtropical bryophyte communities in waterfalls, on dripping walls, and along streams

Ecological Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1648-1663

  Patĩo, Jairo ^a   Hylander, Kristoffer ^b   González Mancebo, Juana M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Canary islands; Clear cutting; Disturbance; Dripping wall; Habitat loss; Laurel forest; Liverwort; Moss; Riparian environment; Spain; Stream; Substrate; Waterfall

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CANALIZATION (BIOLOGY); CLEARCUTTING; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEFORESTATION; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT LOSS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LIVERWORT; LOTIC ENVIRONMENT; MICROCLIMATE; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM; SUBTROPICAL REGION; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION TYPE; WATER POLLUTION; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTRY; METHODOLOGY; MOSS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPAIN; TREE; PROCEDURES;

BRYOPHYTA; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTRY; SPAIN; TREES; WATER;

CANARY ISLANDS; GOMERA; SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE [(PRV) CANARY ISLANDS]; SPAIN;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; MARCHANTIOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 77956433910     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-1086.1     Document Type: Article

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