Regeneration patterns, dendroecology, and forest-use history in an old-growth beech-oak lowland forest in Northern Spain

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 182, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 175-194

  Rozas, Vicente ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Age structure; Disturbance; Fagus sylvatica; Land use history; Quercus robur; Spatial autocorrelation; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; LAND USE;

DENDROECOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES;

FORESTRY;

AGE STRUCTURE; DENDROECOLOGY; DISTURBANCE; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; REGENERATION;

(NORTH); CANTABRIA; SPAIN;

ANIMALIA; FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ROBUR;

EID: 0042853257     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(03)00070-7     Document Type: Article

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