Timber harvesting as ongoing disturbance in a landscape of diverse ownership

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 180, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 425-442

  Kittredge Jr , David B ^a,b   Finley, Andrew O ^c   Foster, David R ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Non industrial private forest owners; Northeastern United States; Spatial pattern; Timber harvest

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; LOGGING (FORESTRY); REMOTE SENSING;

HABITAT QUALITY;

TIMBER;

CONSERVATION; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DISTURBANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LOGGING (TIMBER); PRIVATE LAND; TIMBER HARVESTING;

UNITED STATES;

PINUS STROBUS; QUERCUS; QUERCUS RUBRA; STROBUS;

EID: 0038607609     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(02)00561-3     Document Type: Article

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