Alternative silvicultural practices with variable retention to improve understory plant diversity conservation in southern Patagonian forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 262, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1236-1250

  Lencinas, María Vanessa ^a   Pastur, Guillermo Martínez ^a   Gallo, Emilce ^b   Cellini, Juan Manuel ^c  

^a CENTRO AUSTRAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS CADIC CONICET   (Argentina)

^b Parques Nacionales de Argentina   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Aggregated retention; Biodiversity conservation; Dispersed retention; Plant diversity

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATED RETENTION; ANTARCTICA; BASE-LINE CONDITIONS; BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; CANOPY GAPS; DISPERSED RETENTION; DRY BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; EXOTIC SPECIES; FOREST FLOORS; FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANNING; HARMFUL EFFECTS; HARVESTED STANDS; HARVESTING IMPACTS; MULTIVARIATE CLASSIFICATION; NEW SPECIES; NOTHOFAGUS; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PEAT LAND; PLANT DIVERSITY; PLANT SPECIES; SENSITIVE SPECIES; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SILVICULTURAL PRACTICES; SITE QUALITY; STAND LEVELS; TEMPERATE FORESTS; TEMPORAL CHANGE; TIMBER HARVESTING; WOODY DEBRIS;

AGGREGATES; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; DATA REDUCTION; DEBRIS; HARVESTING; LOGGING (FORESTRY); PLANNING; TIMBER;

ECOLOGY;

AGGREGATION; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CANOPY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOREST FLOOR; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GRASSLAND; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PEATLAND; PLANT COMMUNITY; SILVICULTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STABILIZATION; STAND STRUCTURE; SUSTAINABILITY; TEMPERATE FOREST; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIMBER HARVESTING; UNDERSTORY; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WOODY DEBRIS;

PATAGONIA;

EUDICOTYLEDONS; NOTHOFAGUS PUMILIO; PTERIDOPHYTA;

EID: 79960611752     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.06.021     Document Type: Article

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