A watershed scale assessment of in-stream large woody debris patterns in the southern interior of British Columbia

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 229, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 50-62

  Chen, Xiaoyong ^a   Wei, Xiaohua ^a   Scherer, Rob ^a   Luider, Chad ^a   Darlington, Wayne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Channel network; Forest watershed; Spatial distribution; Stream order; Woody debris

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEMS; WATERSHEDS;

CHANNEL NETWORKS; FOREST WATERSHED; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STREAM ORDER; WOODY DEBRIS;

FORESTRY;

BIOMASS; FOREST; STREAM; WATERSHED; WOODY DEBRIS;

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33646918110     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2006.03.010     Document Type: Article

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