Strategies to reduce browse damage on eastern white pine (Pinus strobus) in southern New England, USA

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 1559-1567

  Ward, Jeffrey S ^a   Mervosh, Todd L ^b  

^a Department of Forestry and Horticulture ^*  (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Bud caps; Height growth; Pinus; Plantation; Survival; Terminal bud damage; Tree shelter

Indexed keywords

GROWTH KINETICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEED; SNOW; VEGETATION;

HEIGHT GROWTH; TERMINAL BUD DAMAGE; TREE SHELTER;

FORESTRY;

BROWSING; BUD; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DAMAGE; DEER; GROWTH RATE; HEIGHT; PLANTATION; SEEDLING; SURVIVAL;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; GROWTH; PINUS STROBUS; PLANTATIONS; SEEDLINGS; SNOW;

NEW ENGLAND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CERVIDAE; CONIFEROPHYTA; PINUS STROBUS;

EID: 39749169875     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.11.014     Document Type: Article

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