The Effects of Wind Disturbance on Temperate Rain Forest Structure and Dynamics of Southeast Alaska

USDA Forest Service - General Technical Report PNW

Volumn , Issue PNW-GTR-421, 1998, Pages

  Nowacki, Gregory J ^a   Kramer, Marc G ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest development; Large scale catastrophic blowdown; Old growth; Predictive windthrow model; Silviculture; Small scale canopy gaps; Tongass National Forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842691085     PISSN: 08874840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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