Single large versus several small: The SLOSS debate in the context of bird responses to a variable retention logging experiment

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 339, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-10

  Lindenmayer, David B ^a,b   Wood, Jeff ^a   McBurney, Lachlan ^a   Blair, David ^a   Banks, Sam C ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Forest biodiversity; Management experiment; Mountain Ash forest; Retention forestry; South eastern Australia; Variable retention harvesting

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; EXPERIMENTS; FIRES; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; LANDFORMS;

FOREST BIODIVERSITY; MOUNTAIN ASH; RETENTION FORESTRIES; SOUTH-EASTERN AUSTRALIA; VARIABLE RETENTIONS;

BIRDS;

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; EVERGREEN TREE; HARVESTING; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SILVICULTURE; SPECIES RICHNESS; WILDFIRE;

AUSTRALIA; CENTRAL HIGHLANDS [VICTORIA]; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

AVES; EUCALYPTUS REGNANS; SORBUS;

EID: 84918781610     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.11.027     Document Type: Article

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