Assessing the relations between aquatic habitat indicators and forest harvesting at watershed scale in the interior of British Columbia

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 256, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 152-160

  Chen, Weirong ^a   Wei, Xiaohua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aquatic habitat indicators; Clear cut; Equivalent clear cut area (ECA); Forest harvesting disturbance; Headwater streams

Indexed keywords

HARVESTING; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHEDS;

AQUATIC HABITAT INDICATORS; EQUIVALENT CLEAR-CUT AREA (ECA); FOREST HARVESTING DISTURBANCE; HEADWATER STREAMS;

FORESTRY;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLEARCUTTING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT; HARVESTING; LOGGING (TIMBER); STREAMWATER; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; TOPOGRAPHY; WATERSHED; WOODY DEBRIS;

FORESTRY; HARVESTING; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SHEDS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 44749092330     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.04.019     Document Type: Article

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