Regeneration microsites of Picea abies seedlings in a windthrow area of a boreal old-growth forest in southern Finland

Annales Botanici Fennici

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 401-413

  Kuuluvainen, Timo ^a   Kalmari, Riku ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Competition; Disturbance; Gap regeneration; Heterogeneity; Norway spruce; Regeneration niche

Indexed keywords

ABIES; BETULA; BETULA PUBESCENS; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; SORBUS; SORBUS AUCUPARIA;

EID: 0346966059     PISSN: 00033847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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