Old-growth forest canopy structure and its relationship to throughfall interception

Forest Science

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 290-298

  Nadkarni, Nalini M ^a   Sumera, Mark M ^a  

^a EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy crane; Forest ecology; Hydrology; Throughfall; Wind River

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; DATA REDUCTION; RAIN; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; VEGETATION;

CANOPY STRUCTURE;

FORESTRY;

EID: 3542994514     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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