Past, current, and future fire frequencies in Quebec's commercial forests: Implications for the cumulative effects of harvesting and fire on age-class structure and natural disturbance-based management

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2737-2744

  Bergeron, Yves ^a   Cyr, Dominic ^b   Drever, C Ronnie ^b   Flannigan, Mike ^c   Gauthier, Sylvie ^d   Kneeshaw, Daniel ^b   Lauzon, Ève ^b   Leduc, Alain ^b   Le Goff, Héloïse ^b   Lesieur, Daniel ^b   Logan, Kimberley ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN ABITIBI TÉMISCAMINGUE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c GREAT LAKES FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^d LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; HARVESTING;

AGE-CLASS DISTRIBUTION; DISTURBANCE BASED MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPES; OLD-GROWTH FORESTS;

FORESTRY;

AGE CLASS; AGE STRUCTURE; BIODIVERSITY; DISTURBANCE; FIRE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; STAND STRUCTURE; SUSTAINABILITY;

ECOLOGY; FOREST FIRES; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTS; HARVESTING;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 34247200025     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X06-177     Document Type: Conference Paper

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