Plant diversity in managed forests: Understory responses to thinning and fertilization

Ecological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 864-879

  Thomas, Sean C ^a,c   Halpern, Charles B ^a   Falk, Donald A ^a,d   Liguori, Denise A ^a   Austin, Kelly A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Diversity; Fertilization; Forest management; Forest understory; Plant diversity in relation to forest management; Pseudotsuga menziesii; Silvicultural thinning; Species diversity in forest understory communities; Temperate rain forest; Understory responses to thinning and fertilization

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; THINNING;

ABIES; FILICOPHYTA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 0033179083     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[0864:PDIMFU]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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