Modeling the interacting effects of browsing and shading on mountain forest tree regeneration (Picea abies)

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 185, Issue 2-4, 2005, Pages 213-230

  Weisberg, Peter J ^a,b   Bonavia, Francesco ^a   Bugmann, Harald ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon allocation; Herbivory; Transport resistance model; Tree growth; Ungulate browsing

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); POPULATION STATISTICS;

LEAF BIOMASS; MOUNTAIN FOREST TREES; PLANT NUTRIENT TRANSPORT; TREE SAPLINGS;

FORESTRY;

BROWSING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HERBIVORY; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MONTANE FOREST; REGENERATION;

BIOMASS; MOUNTAINS; SAPLINGS; TREES;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND; WORLD;

ABIES; CERVIDAE; PICEA ABIES; UNGULATA;

EID: 17644369670     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2004.12.004     Document Type: Article

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