Eleven-year responses of a boreal mixedwood stand to partial harvesting: Light, vegetation, and regeneration dynamics

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 697-706

  Man, Rongzhou ^a   Kayahara, Gordon J ^b   Rice, James A ^a   MacDonald, G Blake ^c  

^a ONTARIO FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abies; Clearcutting; Light; Mixedwood; Partial cutting; Picea; Populus; Regeneration; Shrubs; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

GROWTH KINETICS; HARDWOODS; HARVESTING; VEGETATION;

CLEARCUTTING; MIXEDWOOD; PARTIAL CUTTING;

FORESTRY;

BASAL AREA; BOREAL FOREST; CLEARCUTTING; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST DYNAMICS; HARVESTING; LIGHT EFFECT; MIXED FOREST; PEST OUTBREAK; REGENERATION; SHRUB;

ABIES; FORESTRY; HARDWOODS; PICEA; PLANTS; POPULUS; SHRUBS;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

ABIES; ABIES BALSAMEA; ALNUS; ALNUS INCANA; BRYOPHYTA; CONIFEROPHYTA; MALACOSOMA DISSTRIA; PICEA; PICEA MARIANA; POPULUS;

EID: 39049111155     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.09.043     Document Type: Article

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