Sustainability in multi-aged stands: An analysis of long-term plenter systems

Forestry

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 163-181

  O'Hara, Kevin L ^a   Hasenauer, Hubert ^b   Kindermann, Georg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASAL AREA; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STAND DYNAMICS; STAND STRUCTURE; SUSTAINABILITY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

ABIES; ABIES ALBA; FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 34548411275     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: 14643626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpl051     Document Type: Article

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