Assessing the impact of understory vegetation cut on soil epigeic macrofauna from a cork-oak Montado in South Portugal

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 139-148

  Mendes, Sara Margarida ^a   Santos, Joaquim ^b   Freitas, Helena ^b   Sousa, José Paulo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Cork oak forests; Soil macrofauna; Sustainable management; Understory management

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL ECOSYSTEM; CATTLE; CHRONOSEQUENCE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DISTURBANCE; DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LITTER; MACHINERY; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGENERATION; SAMPLING; SHRUB; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL FAUNA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUSTAINABILITY; UNDERSTORY;

PORTUGAL;

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; BOS; COLEOPTERA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; QUERCUS SUBER; SCYDMAENIDAE;

EID: 79955682276     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: 15729680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-010-9358-z     Document Type: Article

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