Patterns of oak regeneration in a Midwestern savanna restoration experiment

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 3019-3025

  Brudvig, Lars A ^a   Asbjornsen, Heidi ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy thinning; Midwestern oak savanna; Quercus alba; White oak; Woody encroachment removal

Indexed keywords

POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESTORATION; SEED;

CANOPY THINNING; MIDWESTERN OAK SAVANNA; WOODY ENCROACHMENT REMOVAL;

FORESTRY;

DECIDUOUS TREE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SAVANNA; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SURVIVAL; THINNING; WOODY PLANT;

FOREST CANOPY; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ALBA; REFORESTATION; SEEDLINGS;

MIDWEST; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

QUERCUS ALBA;

EID: 41949107197     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.11.017     Document Type: Article

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