The response of land snail assemblages below aspens to forest fire and clear-cutting in Fennoscandian boreal forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 261, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1811-1819

  Hylander, Kristoffer ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Forestry; Gastropod; PH; Refugia; Soil fauna

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FORESTS; BURNT AREAS; DISTURBANCE; FOREST FIRES; FOREST FLOORS; GASTROPOD; LAND SNAILS; POST-FIRE; REFUGIA; SOIL FAUNA; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DENSITY; SUCCESSIONAL STAGES; SURVIVAL RATE; UNDISTURBED FORESTS;

AGRICULTURE; DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGY; EXTRACTION; FIRES; SOILS; TIMBER;

ANIMALS;

ABUNDANCE; BOREAL FOREST; CLEARCUTTING; FOREST FLOOR; GASTROPOD; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PH; POPULATION DENSITY; REFUGE; SNAIL; SOIL FAUNA; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURVIVAL;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; DEFORESTATION; FOREST FIRES; FOREST LITTER; INSECTS; POPULUS;

FENNOSCANDIA;

GASTROPODA; POPULUS; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 79955022756     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.02.003     Document Type: Article

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