Modeling the effects of herbivores on the abundance of forest overstory states using a state-transition approach in the upper Grande Ronde River Basin, Oregon, USA

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 212-222

  Vavra, Marty ^a   Hemstrom, Miles A ^b   Wisdom, Michael ^a  

^a Pacific Northwest Research Station   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Forest state dynamics; Herbivory; Landscapes

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VEGETATION;

DISTURBANCE; FOREST STATE DYNAMICS; HERBIVORY; LANDSCAPES;

ANIMALS;

ABUNDANCE; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GRAZING; HERBIVORY; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; OVERSTORY; REGENERATION; UNGULATE; WILDFIRE;

ANIMALS; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS;

GRANDE RONDE BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; UNGULATA;

EID: 33947732881     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2006.10.005     Document Type: Article

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