Initial response of understory plant diversity and overstory tree diameter growth to a green tree retention harvest

Northwest Science

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 24-35

  North, Malcolm ^a,c   Chen, Jiquan ^b   Smith, Gordon ^a   Krakowiak, Lucy ^a   Franklin, Jerry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Forestry Sciences Lab   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; GREEN TREE RETENTION; GROWTH; HARVESTING TECHNIQUE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

USA, WASHINGTON, SEATTLE CITY WATERSHED; USA, WASHINGTON, WIND RIVER EXPERIMENTAL FOREST;

EID: 0030453789     PISSN: 0029344X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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