Retaining trees for conservation at clearcutting has increased structural diversity in young Swedish production forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 304, Issue , 2013, Pages 312-321

  Kruys, Nic ^a   Fridman, Jonas ^b   Götmark, Frank ^c   Simonsson, Per ^d   Gustafsson, Lena ^b  

^a Uppsala Hospital   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d SCA Skog   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Dead wood; Logging; Monitoring; National Forest Inventory; Variable retention

Indexed keywords

CERTIFICATION STANDARDS; DEAD WOOD; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS; NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORIES; STRUCTURAL COMPONENT; STRUCTURAL DIVERSITY; VARIABLE RETENTIONS;

BIODIVERSITY; LOGGING (FORESTRY); MONITORING; TIMBER;

FORESTRY;

AGE CLASS; BIODIVERSITY; BUFFER ZONE; CERTIFICATION; CLEARCUTTING; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; DEAD WOOD; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; LOGGING (TIMBER); PATCHINESS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; DEAD WOOD; FORESTRY; FORESTS; LOGGING; MONITORING;

SWEDEN;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84878736079     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.05.018     Document Type: Article

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