Microtopography creates small-scale refugia for boreal forest floor bryophytes during clear-cut logging

Ecography

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 637-648

  Schmalholz, Martin ^a   Hylander, Kristoffer ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; BOREAL FOREST; BOULDER; BRYOPHYTE; CLEARCUTTING; DISTURBANCE; FOREST FLOOR; HETEROGENEITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MICROCLIMATE; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REFUGIUM; SHELTER; SURVIVAL; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TRANSPLANTATION;

SWEDEN;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES;

EID: 79960629902     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06652.x     Document Type: Article

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