Competitive success of natural oak regeneration in clearcuts during the stem exclusion stage

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1419-1430

  Morrissey, Robert C ^a   Jacobs, Douglass F ^a   Seifert, John R ^a,d   Fischer, Burnell C ^b   Kershaw, John A ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^d Indiana Division of Forestry   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; AGRONOMY; COMPETITION; DROUGHT; FOOD PROCESSING; FRUITS;

COMPETITIVE SUCCESS; DATA COLLECTED; DROUGHT TOLERANCE (DT); INDIANA , USA; OAK REGENERATION; QUERCUS; REGENERATION (RENOVATING); REGRESSION TREES; RELATIVE DENSITIES; SAMPLING PERIODS; SLOPE POSITIONS; YELLOW-POPLAR;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

ABUNDANCE; CLEARCUTTING; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DECIDUOUS TREE; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; REGENERATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

HOOSIER NATIONAL FOREST; INDIANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

LIRIODENDRON; LIRIODENDRON TULIPIFERA; QUERCUS;

EID: 46749103382     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X08-018     Document Type: Article

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