A meta-analysis of functional group responses to forest recovery outside of the tropics

Conservation Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1695-1703

  Spake, Rebecca ^a   Ezard, Thomas H G ^a   Martin, Philip A ^b   Newton, Adrian C ^b   Doncaster, C Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity offsetting; Old growth; Restoration; Secondary forest

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; FUNGUS; HABITAT LOSS; LAND USE CHANGE; LICHEN; META-ANALYSIS; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; SECONDARY FOREST; SPECIES RICHNESS;

COLEOPTERA; FUNGI;

ANIMAL; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; FUNGUS; LICHEN (ORGANISM); META ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FORESTS; FUNGI; LICHENS;

EID: 84955193898     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12548     Document Type: Article

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