Short-term impacts of partial cutting on lichen retention and canopy microclimate in an Engelmann spruce - Subalpine fir forest in north-central British Columbia

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 830-841

  Coxson, Darwyn ^a   Stevenson, Susan ^b   Campbell, Jocelyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Silvifauna Research   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; HARVESTING; PLANTS (BOTANY);

HARVEST TREATMENTS;

FORESTRY;

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LICHEN; MICROCLIMATE; TIMBER HARVESTING;

CANADA;

ABIES; ABIES LASIOCARPA; ALECTORIA; BRYORIA; PICEA; PICEA ENGELMANNII; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 0038133111     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x03-006     Document Type: Article

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