Water table changes following precommercial thinning on post-harvest drained wetlands

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 235, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 252-259

  Jutras, Sylvain ^a   Plamondon, André P ^a   Hökkä, Hannu ^b   Bégin, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Drainage; Juvenile stand management; Mechanical spacing; Peatland; Sapling

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGICAL BALANCE; JUVENILE STAND MANAGEMENT; MECHANICAL SPACING; PEATLAND;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HARVESTING;

WETLANDS;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST CANOPY; REGENERATION; SILVICULTURE; THINNING; WATER TABLE; WETLAND;

DRAINAGE; HARVESTING; SAPLINGS; SILVICULTURE; WATER TABLE; WETLANDS;

EID: 33749530854     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2006.08.335     Document Type: Article

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