Biofuel harvests, coarse woody debris, and biodiversity - A meta-analysis

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 261, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 878-887

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

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biomass harvest; Coarse woody debris; Harvest residue; Snags

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS HARVEST; COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; CUMULATIVE EFFECTS; DOWNED WOODY DEBRIS; EFFECT SIZE; FINE WOODY DEBRIS; FOREST BIODIVERSITY; FOREST HARVEST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HARVEST RESIDUES; LANDSCAPE CONTEXT; LIFE HISTORY; LOCAL ENERGY; META-ANALYSIS; MULTISCALES; POSTHARVEST; RESIDUAL BIOMASS; SCALE REMOVAL; SMALL SCALE; SNAGS; TEMPORAL SCALE; TIME-PERIODS;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOFUELS; BIOMASS; DEBRIS; ENERGY HARVESTING; FORESTRY;

HARVESTING;

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOFUEL; COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; ENERGY RESOURCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GUIDELINE; HARVESTING; LIFE HISTORY; LOGGING (TIMBER); META-ANALYSIS; SNAG; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AVES; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 78651431459     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.12.021     Document Type: Article

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