Two-year response of American chestnut (Castanea dentata) seedlings to shelterwood harvesting and fire in a mixed-oak forest ecosystem

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 740-749

  McCament, Corinne L ^a   McCarthy, Brian C ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; HARVESTING; SEED; SOIL MECHANICS; TEXTURES; VEGETATION;

BLIGHT RESISTANCE; CHESTNUT BIOMASS; DEVASTATION; TREE SPECIES;

FORESTRY;

DISEASE RESISTANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; REINTRODUCTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

CASTANEA; ECOSYSTEMS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; PLANTS; SEEDLINGS; SEEDS; SOIL MECHANICS; TEXTURE;

CASTANEA DENTATA;

EID: 22144448574     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x05-002     Document Type: Article

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