Bottomland hardwood forest recovery following tornado disturbance and salvage logging

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 256, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 388-395

  Nelson, John L ^a   Groninger, John W ^b   Battaglia, Loretta L ^b   Ruffner, Charles M ^b  

^a CENTER FOR BOTTOMLAND HARDWOODS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest succession; Illinois; Microsite; Mississippi embayment; Ohio River floodplain; Salvage harvest; Stand regeneration; Wind disturbance

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE DETECTION; HARDWOODS; HARVESTING; LOGGING (FORESTRY); NATURAL RESOURCES; RECOVERY; SOILS; TORNADOES; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

(I ,J) CONDITIONS; APPLIED (CO); BOTTOMLAND HARDWOOD; CONSERVATION AREAS; FORESTED WETLANDS; GRADIENT OF DAMAGE; GROWING SEASONS; MICROSITE; SALVAGE LOGGING; SOIL DISTURBANCES; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STEM DENSITY; UNDISTURBED (IGC: D6/D7); VEGETATION DIVERSITY; WIND EVENTS; WOODY REGENERATION;

FORESTRY;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HARVESTING; HURRICANE; POPULATION DENSITY; REGENERATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION; WETLAND;

CONSERVATION; DAMAGE; FLOODS; FORESTRY; HARDWOODS; HARVESTING; LOGGING; NATURAL RESOURCES; PLANTS; RECOVERY; RIVERS; SOIL; WETLANDS; WIND;

ILLINOIS; NORTH AMERICA; OHIO RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 45849115120     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.04.035     Document Type: Article

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