Biodiversity measures applied to stand-level management: Can they really be useful?

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 545-556

  Rubio, Agustín ^a   Gavilán, Rosario G ^b   Montes, Fernando ^a   Gutiérrez Girón, Alba ^b   Díaz Pines, Eugenio ^a   Mezquida, Eduardo T ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Diversity indices; Ecological significance; Evenness; Forest management; Quantitative evaluation; Richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; GLOBAL WARMING;

DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE; EVENNESS; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; RICHNESS;

FORESTRY;

DIVERSITY INDEX; FLORISTICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANATOMY; BIODIVERSITY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; PINUS; QUERCUS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL;

SPAIN;

EID: 79954415400     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2010.07.011     Document Type: Article

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