Hemiboreal forest: Natural disturbances and the importance of ecosystem legacies to management

Ecosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Jõgiste, Kalev ^a,b   Korjus, Henn ^a   Stanturf, John A ^c   Frelich, Lee E ^b   Baders, Endijs ^d   Donis, Janis ^d   Jansons, Aris ^d   Kangur, Ahto ^a   Köster, Kajar ^a,e   Laarmann, Diana ^a   Maaten, Tiit ^a   Marozas, Vitas ^f   Metslaid, Marek ^a   Nigul, Kristi ^a   Polyachenko, Olga ^a   Randveer, Tiit ^a   Vodde, Floortje ^a  

^a ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^d LATVIAN STATE FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE SILAVA   (Latvia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Ecosystem legacies; Ecosystem memory; Information legacy; Legacy syndrome; Material legacy; Natural disturbances

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014099248     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1706     Document Type: Review

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