Is browsing the major factor of silver fir decline in the Vosges Mountains of France?

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 217, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 219-228

  Heuze, Patricia ^a   Schnitzler, Annik ^a   Klein, François ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b OFFICE NATIONAL DE LA CHASSE ET DE LA FAUNE SAUVAGE   (France)

Author keywords

Deer browsing; Silver fir decline; Silver fir beech forests; Silviculture; Spruce; Understory cover; Wildlife management

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; SILVER;

DEER BROWSING; SILVER FIR-BIRCH FORESTS; UNDERSTORY COVER; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

FORESTRY;

BROWSING; POPULATION DECLINE; REGENERATION; SILVICULTURE; UNGULATE;

ABIES ALBA; ECOLOGY; FORESTS; PICEA; SILVICULTURE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; VOSGES [(MNR) FRANCE]; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

ABIES; ABIES ALBA; CERVIDAE; FAGUS; PICEA; UNGULATA;

EID: 26244461249     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.06.003     Document Type: Article

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