Can repeated fertilizer applications to young Norway spruce enhance avian diversity in intensively managed forests?

Ambio

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 521-527

  Edenius, Lars ^a   Mikusiński, Grzegorz ^a   Bergh, Johan ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Birds; Fertilization; Intensive forestry; Norway spruce

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZER;

ABUNDANCE; AVIFAUNA; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONIFEROUS TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; SPRUCE; TREE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; FERTILIZERS; PICEA; TREES;

SWEDEN;

AVES; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 79959805510     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-011-0137-5     Document Type: Article

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