Assessing the role of landscape connectivity in recent woodpecker range expansion in Mediterranean Europe: Forest management implications

European Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 181-194

  Gil Tena, Assu ^a,b   Brotons, Lluís ^a,c,d   Fortin, Marie Josée ^e   Burel, Françoise ^b   Saura, Santiago ^f  

^a Forest Science Center of Catalonia   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d CATALAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conefor; Forest habitat dynamics; Forest landscape management; Functional connectivity; Global change; Spatial grain; Species dispersal

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; RANGE EXPANSION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

CATALONIA; SPAIN;

AVES; DENDROCOPOS MAJOR; DRYOCOPUS MARTIUS;

EID: 84871990919     PISSN: 16124669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10342-012-0666-x     Document Type: Article

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