One and two years impact of commercial thinning on spruce budworm feeding ecology and host tree foliage production and chemistry

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 393-398

  Bauce, Éric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

balsam fir; chemistry; defoliation; spruce budworm; thinning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029802245     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc72393-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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