Boreal mixedwood forests may have no "representative" areas: Some implications for reserve design

Ecography

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 162-180

  Cumming, S G ^a   Burton, P J ^a,b   Klinkenberg, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Symbios Research and Restoration   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREAL MIXEDWOOD; RESERVE DESIGN; SCALE; SHIFTING MOSAIC; STEADY STATE;

CANADA, ALBERTA;

EID: 0030303769     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1996.tb00166.x     Document Type: Article

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