Assessing the influence of harvesting intensities on structural diversity of forests in south-west Germany

Abstract Background To increase ecosystem resilience and biodiversity, the maintenance and improvement of structural and compositional diversity of forests has become an important goal in forest management for many forest owners and jurisdictions. At the same time, future harvesting intensity (HI) m...

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Main Authors: Felix Storch, Gerald Kändler, Jürgen Bauhus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-09-01
Series:Forest Ecosystems
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40663-019-0199-6