Hotspots in cold climate: Conservation value of woodland key habitats in boreal forests

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2061-2067

  Timonen, Jonna ^a   Gustafsson, Lena ^b   Kotiaho, Janne S ^a   Mönkkönen, Mikko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation; Evidence based; Meta analysis; Production forests; WKH

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BOREAL FOREST; CLEARCUTTING; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; EDGE EFFECT; META-ANALYSIS; PERSISTENCE; RED LIST; SPECIES RICHNESS; WOODLAND;

BALTIC SHIELD; FINLAND; NORWAY; SWEDEN;

EID: 79958147870     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.02.016     Document Type: Review

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