Post-agricultural forests: Landscape patterns add to stand-scale factors in causing insufficient hardwood regeneration

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 1637-1646

  D'Orangeville, Loïc ^a   Bouchard, André ^a   Cogliastro, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agroforested landscape; Past land use; Post agricultural forest; Seed dispersal; Spatial scales; Tree regeneration

Indexed keywords

HARDWOODS; LAND USE; SEED; SOILS;

AGROFORESTED LANDSCAPE; PAST LAND-USE; SEED DISPERSAL; SPATIAL SCALES; TREE REGENERATION;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGROFORESTRY; GIS; LAND USE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLANT COMMUNITY; REGENERATION; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

FORESTS; HARDWOODS; REFORESTATION; SOIL;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 39849096851     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.11.023     Document Type: Article

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