The role of hair-cap mosses (Polytrichum spp.) in natural regeneration of white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss)

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 92, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 19-28

  Parker, William C ^a   Watson, Stephen R ^a   Cairns, Daryll W ^a  

^a ONTARIO FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competition; Forest regeneration; Morphology; Seedbed; Seedling emergence; Seedling establishment

Indexed keywords

PICEA GLAUCA; POLYTRICHUM;

ECOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIP; HAIR-CAP MOSS; REGENERATION; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SURVIVAL; WHITE SPRUCE;

CANADA, ONTARIO;

EID: 0030613264     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(96)03956-4     Document Type: Article

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