Environmental and human drivers influencing large old tree abundance in Australian wet forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 372, Issue , 2016, Pages 226-235

  Lindenmayer, David B ^a,b   Blanchard, Wade ^a,b   Blair, David ^a,b   McBurney, Lachlan ^a,b   Banks, Sam C ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cavity trees; Fire; Logging; Montane ash forests; Old growth forests; Regrowth forests; Snags; Stags; Tree distribution

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRES; LOGGING (FORESTRY); MORPHOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

CAVITY TREES; MONTANE ASH FORESTS; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; REGROWTH FORESTS; SNAGS; STAGS; TREE DISTRIBUTION;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FIRE; LOGGING (TIMBER); MARSUPIAL; MONTANE FOREST; MORPHOLOGY; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SNAG; TREE;

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

ANIMALIA; METATHERIA;

EID: 84964691259     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.04.017     Document Type: Article

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