Landscape context affects the success of habitat restoration: Large-scale colonization patterns of saproxylic and fire-associated species in boreal forests

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 348-355

  Kouki, Jari ^a   Hyvärinen, Esko ^b   Lappalainen, Harri ^a   Martikainen, Petri ^a   Similä, Maarit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b Natural Heritage Services   (Finland)

Author keywords

Fennoscandia; Fire; Protected forest; Red listed species; Restoration ecology; Scots pine

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BOREAL FOREST; COLONIZATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DEAD WOOD; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FIRE BEHAVIOR; HABITAT RESTORATION; LANDSCAPE; PROTECTED AREA; RARE SPECIES; RED LIST; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SAPROXYLIC ORGANISM;

FINLAND;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84856643974     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00839.x     Document Type: Article

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