Characteristic site disturbance due to harvesting and extraction machinery traffic on sensitive forest sites with peat soils

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 180, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 85-98

  Nugent, Ciaran ^a,b   Kanali, Christopher ^b   Owende, Philip M O ^b   Nieuwenhuis, Martin ^b   Ward, Shane ^b  

^a Forest Service   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Ecoefficient mechanisation systems; Rutting; Sensitive sites; Soil compaction

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; PEAT; SOILS; WOOD;

EXTRACTION MACHINERY;

HARVESTING;

COMPACTION; FOREST SOIL; HARVESTING; MACHINERY; PEAT SOIL; RUTTING;

EID: 0037593603     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(02)00628-X     Document Type: Article

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