A study of the effect of logging on the understorey light environment in riparian buffer strips in a south-east Australian forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 172, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 161-172

  Dignan, Paul ^a   Bren, Leon ^b  

^a Forest Science Centre   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Edge effects; Hemispherical photographs; Riparian habitat; Stream buffers

Indexed keywords

ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING; LIGHT MODULATION; TIMBER; VEGETATION;

HEMISPHERICAL CANOPY PHOTOGRAPHS; RIPARIAN HABITAT VALUES;

LOGGING (FORESTRY);

EDGE EFFECT; LIGHT; RIPARIAN FOREST; TIMBER HARVESTING;

AUSTRALIA;

RIPARIA;

EID: 0037454789     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(01)00810-6     Document Type: Article

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