A review of habitat thresholds for dead wood: A baseline for management recommendations in European forests

European Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 981-992

  Müller, Jörg ^a   Bütler, Rita ^b,c  

^a National Park Bavarian Forest   (Germany)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping; Conditional inference tree; Logistic regression; Maximally selected rank statistic; Thresholds; Variable selection

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BOOTSTRAPPING; DEAD WOOD; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LITERATURE REVIEW; NATURE CONSERVATION; RANKING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; THRESHOLD;

EUROPE;

FAGUS; PICEA;

EID: 77958499219     PISSN: 16124669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10342-010-0400-5     Document Type: Review

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