Relating spatial patterns of sugar maple reproductive success and relative deer density in northern New York State

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 181, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 253-266

  Didier, Karl A ^a   Porter, William F ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Herbivory; New York; Regeneration; Spatial autocorrelation; Spatial scale; Sugar maple; White tailed deer

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FORESTRY; MANAGEMENT; PLANTS (BOTANY); STATISTICAL METHODS;

SUGAR MAPLE;

ECOLOGY;

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GRAZING; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; REGENERATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; UNGULATE;

NEW YORK; UNITED STATES;

ACER; ACER SACCHARUM; CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; SACCHARUM;

EID: 0042405053     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(03)00137-3     Document Type: Article

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