Regeneration of treeline birch (Betula utilis D. Don) forest in a trans-Himalayan dry valley in Central Nepal

Mountain Research and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 259-267

  Shrestha, Bharat Babu ^a   Ghimire, Balkrishna ^a,b   Lekhak, Hari Datta ^a   Jha, Pramod Kumar ^a  

^a TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^b Trichandra Multiple Campus ^*  (Nepal)

Author keywords

Abies spectabilis; Anthropo zoogenic treeline; Density diameter curve; Manang; Nepal; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; REGENERATION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; TREE;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS; NEPAL; SOUTH ASIA;

ABIES; ABIES SPECTABILIS; BETULA; BETULA UTILIS;

EID: 34548727482     PISSN: 02764741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1659/mrdd.0784     Document Type: Article

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