Woodfuel harvesting and biodiversity conservation in temperate forests: Effects of logging residue characteristics on saproxylic beetle assemblages

Biological Conservation

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 204-212

  Lassauce, Aurore ^a,b   Lieutier, Francois ^c   Bouget, Christophe ^a  

^a Cemagref   (France)

^b French Agency for Environment and Energy Management ADEME   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

Author keywords

Bio energy; Biodiversity; Biomass; Deadwood; Logging residues; Saproxylic beetles

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOENERGY; BIOMASS; BOREAL FOREST; DEAD WOOD; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FUELWOOD; HARVESTING; KYOTO PROTOCOL; LOGGING (TIMBER); SAPROXYLIC ORGANISM; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; WOODY DEBRIS;

FRANCE; SCANDINAVIA;

CARPINUS; COLEOPTERA; FAGUS; PICEA;

EID: 84858155064     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.01.001     Document Type: Article

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