Aging discrepancies of white spruce affect the interpretation of static age structure in boreal mixedwoods

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1496-1501

  Peters, Vernon S ^a   Macdonald, S Ellen ^a   Dale, Mark R T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRES; TIME MEASUREMENT;

GROUND-LEVEL RING COUNTS; STATIC AGE STRUCTURE;

FORESTRY;

AGE DETERMINATION; AGE STRUCTURE; BOREAL FOREST; FOREST FIRE; REGENERATION;

PICEA; PICEA GLAUCA;

EID: 2242449761     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x02-060     Document Type: Article

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