Initial responses of woody vegetation, water quality, and soils to harvesting intensity in a Texas bottomland hardwood ecosystem

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 90, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 201-215

  Messina, Michael G ^a   Schoenholtz, Stephen H ^b   Lowe, Matthew W ^a   Wang, Ziyin ^b   Gunter, Dolores K ^b   Londo, Andrew J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clearcutting; Regeneration; Soil respiration; Species diversity; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

BOTTOMLAND HARDWOOD FOREST; CLEARCUTTING; FOREST; FOREST REGENERATION; HARVEST; HARVESTING INTENSITY; SOIL; WATER QUALITY; WOODY VEGETATION;

USA, TEXAS;

EID: 0030759395     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(96)03895-9     Document Type: Article

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