Neighborhood approach for quantifying interspecific competition in coastal Oregon forests

Ecological Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 779-794

  Wagner, Robert G ^a,b   Radosevich, Steven R ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition index; Competitive asymmetry; Douglas fir; Forest vegetation management; Neighborhood models; Plant interference; Pseudotsuga menziesii; Rubus spectabilis; Salmonberry

Indexed keywords

ABIES; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; RUBUS SPECTABILIS;

EID: 0031873903     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1998)008[0779:NAFQIC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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