Do eucalypt plantations provide habitat for native forest biodiversity?

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 270, Issue , 2012, Pages 153-162

  Calviño Cancela, María ^a   Rubido Bará, Margarita ^a   van Etten, Eddie J B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Land use change; Plantation forest management; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; BIOVOLUMES; DATA DISTRIBUTION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS; ECONOMIC GROWTHS; EUCALYPT PLANTATIONS; FUNCTIONAL TYPES; HABITAT CONNECTIVITY; LAND-USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE SCALE; LOCAL SCALE; NATIVE FORESTS; NATURAL VEGETATION; PERMANOVA; PINE PLANTATIONS; PLANTATION FORESTRY; PLANTATION FORESTS; REGIONAL SCALE; SEED DISPERSAL; SHANNON INDEX; SHRUBLANDS; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES PERSISTENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES TURNOVER; STUDY SITES; UNDERSTORY VEGETATION;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

ANT; BIODIVERSITY; CONNECTIVITY; DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EVERGREEN FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRAPHICAL METHOD; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HARVESTING; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANTATION FORESTRY; RARE SPECIES; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED DISPERSAL; SHRUBLAND; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNDERSTORY; VERTEBRATE;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LAND USE; PLANTS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84856990562     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.01.019     Document Type: Article

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