Effects of silvicultural treatments on forest biodiversity indicators in the Mediterranean
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- 作者：Olga Torras ; Santiago Saura
- 关键词：Forest biodiversity ; Biodiversity indicators ; Sustainable forest management ; Mediterranean forests ; Silvicultural treatments ; Stand improvement
- 刊名：Forest Ecology and Management
- 出版年：2008
- 出版时间：15 May 2008
- 年：2008
- 卷：255
- 期：8-9
- 页码：3322-3330
- 全文大小：636 K
文摘
Biodiversity maintenance is a key management objective and a requisite for sustainable forestry. Research efforts on the effects of forest management on biological diversity are therefore increasingly needed, particularly in regions such as the Mediterranean that have been comparatively less studied in this respect. We analysed the effects of different regeneration and stand improvement treatments on six forest biodiversity indicators (snags, mature trees, shrub abundance, shrub species richness, tree species richness and tree species diversity) in the Mediterranean region of Catalonia (NE Spain) by analysing a set of 9808 plots from the Third Spanish National Forest Inventory comprising both managed and unmanaged stands.