The dying legacy of green-tree retention: Different habitat values for polypores and wood-inhabiting lichens

Biological Conservation

Volumn 159, Issue , 2013, Pages 187-196

  Runnel, Kadri ^a   Rosenvald, Raul ^b   Lõhmus, Asko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Dead wood; Early successional forest; Epixylic lichen; Fungi; Habitat continuity; Snag

Indexed keywords

CLEARCUTTING; CONSERVATION PLANNING; FUNGUS; HABITAT CONSERVATION; LICHEN; LONGEVITY; MORTALITY; SNAG; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUBSTRATE; SUCCESSION; WOOD;

ESTONIA;

FUNGI; POPULUS;

EID: 84872826932     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.11.029     Document Type: Article

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