Cattle grazing facilitates tree regeneration in a conifer forest with palatable bamboo understory

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 252, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 73-83

  Darabant, A ^a,b   Rai, P B ^b   Tenzin, K ^a,c   Roder, W ^b   Gratzer, G ^a  

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

^b Renewable Natural Resources Research Centre Jakar   (Bhutan)

^c Renewable Natural Resources Research Centre Yusipang   (Bhutan)

Author keywords

Arrested succession; Bamboo; Bhutan Himalayas; Cattle grazing; Facilitation; Forest regeneration

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BAMBOO;

CATTLE GRAZING; LIGHT INTERCEPTION; SEEDLING DENSITY;

FORESTRY;

BAMBOO; CATTLE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DESICCATION; FOREST FLOOR; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GERMINATION; GRAZING; LOGGING (TIMBER); OVERSTORY; REGENERATION; SEEDLING; UNDERSTORY;

ANIMALS; BAMBOO; FORESTRY;

ASIA; BHUTAN; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS; SOUTH ASIA;

ABIES; ABIES DENSA; BOS; BRYOPHYTA; CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA; PICEA SPINULOSA; PINUS WALLICHIANA; TSUGA; TSUGA DUMOSA; YUSHANIA MICROPHYLLA;

EID: 35548942288     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.06.018     Document Type: Article

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