Upland black spruce stand development 17 years after cleaning and precommercial thinning

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 31-41

  Fleming, R L ^a   Mossa, D S ^a   Marek, G T ^b  

^a GREAT LAKES FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Black spruce; Cleaning; Density management; Precommercial thinning; Projected yields

Indexed keywords

CLEANING; DENSITY CONTROL (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FORESTRY;

DENSITY MANAGEMENT; PRECOMMERCIAL THINNING; SILVICULTURISTS;

SOFTWOODS;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; SILVICULTURE; STAND STRUCTURE; THINNING;

CLEANING; FORESTRY; PICEA; PLANTATIONS;

PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 17044383840     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc81031-1     Document Type: Article

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