Impact of riparian buffer guidelines on old growth in western boreal forests of Canada

Forestry

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 263-278

  Lee, Philip ^a   Barker, Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Daishowa Marubeni International Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; RIPARIAN ZONE; TIMBER HARVESTING;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 25844522228     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpi024     Document Type: Article

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