Temporal and spatial dynamic of stool uprooting in abandoned chestnut coppice forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 235, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 88-95

  Vogt, Juliane ^a,b   Fonti, Patrick ^a   Conedera, Marco ^a   Schröder, Boris ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Castanea sativa; Empirical modelling; Insubric ecosystems; Stand dynamics; Tree fall gaps; Tree ring

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL MODELING; INSUBRIC ECOSYSTEMS; STAND DYNAMICS; TREE-FALL GAPS; TREE-RING;

BIOMASS; GRAVITATION; PROBABILITY;

FORESTRY;

ABANDONED LAND; COPPICE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; STAND DYNAMICS;

BIOMASS; CASTANEA; COPPICE; DIVERSIFICATION; FORESTRY; GRAVITATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

CASTANEA SATIVA;

EID: 33749685731     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2006.08.008     Document Type: Article

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