Using shelterwood harvests and prescribed fire to regenerate oak stands on productive upland sites

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 113, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 125-141

  Brose, Patrick ^a   Van Lear, David ^a   Cooper, Roderick ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Liriodendron; Oak regeneration; Prescribed fire; Quercus; Shelterwood system; Yellow poplar

Indexed keywords

DECIDUOUS FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; PRESCRIBED BURNING; REGENERATION; STAND DYNAMICS; UPLAND REGION;

EID: 0033601741     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(98)00423-X     Document Type: Article

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