Effects of silviculture on native tree species richness: Interactions between management, landscape context and regional climate

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 775-785

  Martín Queller, Emi ^a,b   Diez, Jeffrey M ^c   Ibáñez, Inés ^d   Saura, Santiago ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Disturbance ecology; Hierarchical Bayes; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Landscape ecology; Mediterranean forests; Metacommunity dynamics; Partial harvesting; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY PRACTICE; HARVESTING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; METAPOPULATION; NATIVE SPECIES; REGENERATION; SILVICULTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SPAIN;

EID: 84878213726     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12064     Document Type: Article

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