Response of trembling aspen to partial cutting and subsequent forest tent caterpillar defoliation in a boreal mixedwood stand in northeastern Ontario, Canada

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1349-1356

  Man, Rongzhou ^a   Kayahara, Gordon J ^b   Rice, James A ^a   MacDonald, G Blake ^c  

^a ONTARIO FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; HARVESTING;

BOREAL MIXEDWOOD; CATERPILLAR (CO); DIAMETER GROWTH; FOLIAGE LOSS; GROWTH RESPONSES; HEIGHT GROWTH; INDIVIDUAL TREES; INSECT DEFOLIATION; MIXED WOODS; MORTALITY RATES; ONTARIO (CO); ONTARIO , CANADA; PARTIAL CUTTINGS; TREMBLING ASPEN; UPPER CANOPY;

FORESTRY;

BOREAL FOREST; CATERPILLAR; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DEFOLIATION; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; HARVESTING; MORTALITY; PEST DAMAGE; SURVIVAL;

CUTTING; DEFOLIATION; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; FORESTS; GROWTH; HARVESTING; TREES; WOOD;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

HEXAPODA; MALACOSOMA DISSTRIA; POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 46749131591     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X08-005     Document Type: Article

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