Long-term responses of ecosystem components to stand thinning in young lodgepole pine forest. III. Growth of crop trees and coniferous stand structure

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 228, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 69-81

  Sullivan, Thomas P ^a   Sullivan, Druscilla S ^b   Lindgren, Pontus M F ^b   Ransome, Douglas B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Applied Mammal Research Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crown architecture; Diameter and height growth; Lodgepole pine; Old growth attributes; Pre commercial thinning; Stand volume; Structural diversity

Indexed keywords

CROPS; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY;

CROWN ARCHITECTURE; DIAMETER AND HEIGHT GROWTH; LODGEPOLE PINE; OLD-GROWTH ATTRIBUTES; PRE-COMMERCIAL THINNING; STAND VOLUME; STRUCTURAL DIVERSITY;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BOREAL FOREST; GROWTH; PRODUCTIVITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STAND STRUCTURE; TEMPERATE FOREST;

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FARM CROPS; FORESTRY;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; KAMLOOPS; NORTH AMERICA; PENTICTON; PRINCE GEORGE;

CONIFERALES; CONIFEROPHYTA; PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 33646583795     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2006.02.026     Document Type: Article

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