Disturbance severity and community resilience in a boreal forest

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1906-1915

  Rydgren, K ^a,c   Okland R H ^a,b   Hestmark, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c WESTERN NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Disturbance; Gap; Propagule bank; Recruitment; Resilience; Succession

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FIELD LAYER; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; RECRUITMENT; SEED BANK; SUCCESSION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

ABIES; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; DICRANUM; DICRANUM MAJUS; HYLOCOMIUM SPLENDENS; LUZULA; LUZULA PILOSA; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; POHLIA; POHLIA NUTANS; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 4444347609     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-0276     Document Type: Article

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