Optimizing hardwood reforestation in old fields: The effects of treeshelters and environmental factors on tree seedling growth and physiology

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 270-280

  Laliberté, Etienne ^a,b   Bouchard, André ^a   Cogliastro, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Acer saccharinum; Facilitation; Fraxinus pennsylvanica; Hardwood silviculture; Microtopography; Quercus macrocarpa; Water relations

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROWTH RESPONSE; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; MULCHING; OPTIMIZATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REFORESTATION; SEEDLING; SILVICULTURE;

ACER; ACER SACCHARINUM; FRAXINUS; FRAXINUS PENNSYLVANICA; QUERCUS MACROCARPA;

EID: 44349116106     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2007.00270.x     Document Type: Article

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