Impacts of deer herbivory and visual grading on the early performance of high-quality oak planting stock in Tennessee, USA

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 229, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 128-135

  Oswalt, Christopher M ^a   Clatterbuck, Wayne K ^a   Houston, Allan E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b Ames Plantation   (United States)

Author keywords

Enrichment planting; Herbivory; Oak regeneration; Oak seedlings; Tennessee; Visual grading; White tail deer

Indexed keywords

HARVESTING; SEED;

ENRICHMENT PLANTING; HERBIVORY; OAK REGENERATION; OAK SEEDLINGS; TENNESSEE; VISUAL GRADING; WHITE-TAIL DEER;

HARDWOODS;

DEER; HERBIVORY; MORTALITY; PLANTATION; SEEDLING;

HARVESTING; QUERCUS; SEEDS;

NORTH AMERICA; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; QUERCUS RUBRA;

EID: 33646916083     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2006.03.014     Document Type: Article

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