Factors affecting stand structure in forests - Are there climatic and topographic determinants?

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 55-63

  Lindenmayer, D B ^a   Mackey, B G ^a   Mullen, I C ^a   McCarthy, M A ^a   Gill, A M ^b   Cunningham, R B ^a   Donnelly, C F ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Environmental modeling; Fire; Logit regression; Mountain ash forest; Multi aged stands; Silvicultural practices; Southeastern Australia; Stand structure

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; STAND STRUCTURE;

AUSTRALIA;

SORBUS; VICTORIA;

EID: 0033547218     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(99)00018-3     Document Type: Article

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