Historical human influence on forest composition and structure in boreal Fennoscandia

In studies on natural dynamics, biodiversity and reference conditions legacies of preindustrial human land use are often neglected. In this study, using archaeology and dendrochronology combined with field surveys on present forest characteristics, we assessed the naturalness of a protected forest l...

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Published in:Canadian Journal of Forest Research
Main Authors: Josefsson, Torbjörn, Gunnarson, Björn, Liedgren, Lars, Bergman, Ingela, Östlund, Lars
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2010
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/x10-033
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