Emulating natural landscape disturbance in forest management - An introduction

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 231-233

  Crow, Thomas R ^a   Perera, Ajith H ^b  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b ONTARIO FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY;

EID: 3042846904     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:LAND.0000030762.86156.5d     Document Type: Conference Paper

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