Variation of red oak acorn production

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 116, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 1-11

  Healy, William M ^a   Lewis, Ann M ^a   Boose, Emery F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Holdsworth Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Annual masting; Individual masting; Management; Quercus rubra; Seed

Indexed keywords

ACORN; FOREST MANAGEMENT; REGENERATION; SEED PRODUCTION; THINNING;

QUERCUS RUBRA;

EID: 0033548890     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(98)00460-5     Document Type: Article

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