Aggregations of dead wood after wildfire act as browsing refugia for seedlings of Populus tremula and Salix caprea

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 250, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 3-8

  de Chantal, Michelle ^a   Granström, Anders ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aspen; Coarse woody debris; Fire; Herbivory; Willow; Windthrow

Indexed keywords

FIRES; GROWTH RATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; WINDTHROW;

WOOD;

ABUNDANCE; AGGREGATION; BOREAL FOREST; COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; DECIDUOUS TREE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORY; SEEDLING; WILDFIRE;

FOREST FIRES; GROWTH RATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WOOD;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; STOCKHOLM [SWEDEN]; SWEDEN; TYRESTA NATIONAL PARK;

CAPREOLUS; CERVIDAE; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULA; SALIX; SALIX CAPREA; UNGULATA;

EID: 34548436456     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.03.035     Document Type: Article

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