Comparing regeneration techniques for afforesting previously farmed bottomland hardwood sites in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, USA

Forestry

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 169-180

  Lockhart, Brian Roy ^a   Keeland, Bob ^b   McCoy, John ^b   Dean, Thomas J ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; HABITAT RESTORATION; OLD FIELD; REGENERATION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SITE PREPARATION; SOWING;

UNITED STATES;

QUERCUS;

EID: 0038325745     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/76.2.169     Document Type: Conference Paper

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