Effects of retention felling on epixylic species in boreal spruce forests in Southern Finland

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 418-429

  Hautala, Harri ^a   Laaka Lindberg, Sanna ^b   Vanha Majamaa, Ilkka ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bryophytes; Coarse woody debris; Epixylic; Lichens; Variable retention; Vascular plants

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; LICHEN; MOSS; PATCH DYNAMICS; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURVIVAL; VASCULAR PLANT; WOODY DEBRIS;

FINLAND;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; MARCHANTIOPHYTA; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 79955159394     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00545.x     Document Type: Article

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