Abundance of large old trees in wood-pastures of Transylvania (Romania)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 613-614, Issue , 2018, Pages 263-270

  Hartel, Tibor ^a,b   Hanspach, Jan ^c   Moga, Cosmin I ^d   Holban, Lucian ^d   Szapanyos, Árpád ^d   Tamás, Réka ^e   Hováth, Csaba ^b   Réti, Kinga Olga ^b  

^a SAPIENTIA HUNGARIAN UNIVERSITY OF TRANSYLVANIA   (Romania)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^c LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^d Pogány havas Association ^*  (Romania)

^e Pogány havas Association   (Romania)

Author keywords

Conservation; Eastern Europe; Ecological keystone; Large old tree; Remarkable trees of Romania; Transylvania; Veteran tree; Wooded pasture

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; FRUITS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STATISTICS; SURVEYS; WOOD;

EASTERN EUROPE; ECOLOGICAL KEYSTONE; LARGE OLD TREE; ROMANIA; TRANSYLVANIA; VETERAN TREE; WOODED PASTURE;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; KEYSTONE SPECIES; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; TREE;

AGED TREE; ARTICLE; BEECH; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; FOREST; HORNBEAM; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OAK; PASTURELAND; PEAR; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROMANIA; RURAL AREA; TREE; WOOD; AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

EASTERN EUROPE; ROMANIA; TRANSYLVANIA;

CARPINUS; FAGUS; PYRUS;

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ROMANIA; TREES; WOOD;

EID: 85029279482     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.09.048     Document Type: Article

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