Fungi and wind strongly influence the temporal availability of logs in an old-growth spruce forest

Ecological Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 482-490

  Edman, Mattias ^a   Jönsson, Mari ^b   Jonsson, Bengt Gunnar ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Boreal; Coarse woody debris; Decay rate; Disturbance agents; Forest management; Heart rot fungi; Norway spruce; Phellinus chrysoloma; Stage matrix; Sweden; Temporal pattern; Tree mortality

Indexed keywords

COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DEAD WOOD; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FUNGUS; MORTALITY; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WIND;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; FUNGUS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRUCE; SWEDEN; TIME; TREE; WIND; WOOD;

ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; FUNGI; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PICEA; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS; TREES; WIND; WOOD;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

FUNGI; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; PORODAEDALEA CHRYSOLOMA;

EID: 34247246346     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-0852     Document Type: Article

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