Presettlement forest in southern Ontario: Ecosystems measured through a cultural prism

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 485-501

  Suffling, Roger ^a   Evans, Michael ^a   Perera, Ajith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Forest history; Historical ecology; Old growth forest; Ontario

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATOLOGY; STATISTICS; TIMBER; VEGETATION;

NATURAL FORESTS;

FORESTRY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; VEGETATION HISTORY;

CANADA; ONTARIO;

ACER; ACER SACCHARUM; CONIUM; CONIUM MACULATUM; FAGUS; FAGUS AMERICANA; FAGUS GRANDIFOLIA; PINUS RESINOSA; PINUS STROBUS; QUERCUS; SACCHARUM; SACCHARUM HYBRID CULTIVAR; SAPINDACEAE; STROBUS; TSUGA; TSUGA CANADENSIS;

EID: 0141566531     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc79485-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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