"Lifespan" of woodpecker-made holes in a primeval temperate forest: A thirty year study

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 262, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1846-1852

  Wesołowski, Tomasz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bia owie a National Park; Persistence of holes; Tree holes; Woodpeckers

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FORESTS; DEAD TREES; DEAD WOOD; FOREST TYPE; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; LIFE SPAN; LIFESPANS; NATIONAL PARKS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OAK-HORNBEAM FORESTS; PERSISTENCE OF HOLES; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; POPULUS TREMULA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; PRIMEVAL FORESTS; QUERCUS ROBUR; TEMPERATE FORESTS; TREE SPECIES; TREE-HOLES; WOODPECKERS;

EXCAVATION; FORESTRY; PARKS;

PLANT EXTRACTS;

BIRD; BREEDING SITE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DEAD WOOD; LIFE CYCLE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PERSISTENCE; RESOURCE SCARCITY; SUBSTRATE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATE FOREST; TREEHOLE;

EXTRACTIVES; FORESTRY; FORESTS; HOLES; PERSISTENCE LENGTH; PLANTS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TREES;

BIALOWIEZA NATIONAL PARK; POLAND;

AVES; CARPINUS; DENDROCOPOS LEUCOTOS; DENDROCOPOS MAJOR; DENDROCOPOS MINOR; DRYOCOPUS MARTIUS; PICEA ABIES; PICIDAE; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; QUERCUS ROBUR;

EID: 80052753575     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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