The impact of deer on relationships between tree growth and mortality in an old-growth beech-maple forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 252, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 230-238

  Long, Zachary T ^a   Pendergast IV, Thomas H ^a   Carson, Walter P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

American beech; Growth mortality; Herbivory; Old growth forest; Shade tolerance; Sugar maple; White tailed deer

Indexed keywords

GROWTH KINETICS; SEED;

GROWTH-MORTALITY; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; SHADE-TOLERANCE; WHITE-TAILED DEER;

FORESTRY;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DEER; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FOREST DYNAMICS; GROWTH RESPONSE; MORTALITY; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SHADE TOLERANCE;

ACER SACCHARUM; FAGUS GRANDIFOLIA; FORESTRY; SEEDLINGS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ACER; ACER RUBRUM; ACER SACCHARUM; CERVIDAE; FAGUS; FAGUS GRANDIFOLIA; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; PRUNUS SEROTINA;

EID: 35448945270     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.06.034     Document Type: Article

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