Impacts of silvicultural treatments on arboreal lichen biomass in balsam fir stands on Québec's Gaspé Peninsula: Implications for a relict caribou herd

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2733-2742

  Stone, Ivy ^a   Ouellet, Jean Pierre ^b   Sirois, Luc ^a   Arseneau, Marie Josée ^a   St Laurent, Martin Hugues ^a  

^a CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arboreal lichens; Biomass; Forest chronosequence; Old growth forest; Silviculture

Indexed keywords

HARVESTING; LOGGING (FORESTRY); SOILS;

ARBOREAL LICHENS; OLD GROWTH FOREST;

BIOMASS;

BIOMASS; CHRONOSEQUENCE; DEER; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EVERGREEN FOREST; LICHEN; LOGGING (TIMBER); OLD-GROWTH FOREST; SILVICULTURE; THINNING; UPLAND REGION;

BIOMASS; HARVESTING; LOGGING; SOIL;

CANADA; GASPE PENINSULA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

ABIES; ABIES BALSAMEA; ALECTORIA; ALECTORIA SARMENTOSA; BRYORIA; RANGIFER TARANDUS; RANGIFER TARANDUS CARIBOU; USNEA;

EID: 41949099427     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.01.040     Document Type: Article

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