Differential demographic responses of sympatric Parids to vegetation management in boreal forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 319, Issue , 2014, Pages 169-175

  Eggers, Sönke ^a,b   Low, Matthew ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Commercial thinning; Niche diversity; Parids; Social dominance; Variable density thinning; Vegetation management

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY;

COMMERCIAL THINNING; NICHE DIVERSITY; PARIDS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; VARIABLE DENSITY; VEGETATION MANAGEMENT;

FORESTRY;

ADULT; BIRD; BOREAL FOREST; COEXISTENCE; DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; DOMINANCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; SURVIVORSHIP; SYMPATRY; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; PLANTS; THINNING;

EID: 84895753637     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.02.019     Document Type: Article

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