The vegetative spread of Pteridium aquilinum in a hemiboreal forest - Invasion or revegetation?

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 124, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 177-184

  Dolling, A ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Pine forest; Pteridium aquilinum; Regeneration failure; Vegetative spread

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; CLEARCUTTING; FERN; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; REVEGETATION; VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION;

PTERIDIUM AQUILINUM;

EID: 0033530805     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(99)00056-0     Document Type: Article

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