Biodiversity response to intensive biomass production from forest thinning in North American forests - A meta-analysis

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 261, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 221-232

  Verschuyl, Jake ^a   Riffell, Sam ^b   Miller, Darren ^c   Wigley, T Bently ^a  

^a NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR AIR AND STREAM IMPROVEMENT   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass harvest; Diversity; Fuels treatment; Meta analysis; Richness; Thinning

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS HARVEST; DIVERSITY; META-ANALYSIS; RICHNESS; THINNING;

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; FUELS; HARVESTING; MAMMALS;

BIODIVERSITY;

ABUNDANCE; ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; AMPHIBIAN; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; HARVESTING; MAGNITUDE; META-ANALYSIS; NUTRIENT CYCLING; POLICY MAKING; REPTILE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; THINNING;

NORTH AMERICA;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 78649449362     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.10.010     Document Type: Article

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