Advance Fagus sylvatica and Acer pseudoplatanus seedlings dominate tree regeneration in a mixed broadleaved former coppice-with-standards forest

Forestry

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 135-150

  Collet, Catherine ^a   Piboule, Alexandre ^a,b   Leroy, Olivier ^a   Frochot, Henri ^a  

^a LERFoB   (France)

^b ONF Direction Territoriale Lorraine   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DECIDUOUS TREE; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; REGENERATION; SEEDLING; SHADE TOLERANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION; TOLERANCE;

ACER; ACER CAMPESTRE; ACER PLATANOIDES; ACER PSEUDOPLATANUS; CARPINUS BETULUS; FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; FRAXINUS; FRAXINUS EXCELSIOR; MALVACEAE; QUERCUS; SORBUS; SORBUS TORMINALIS; TILIA SP.;

EID: 49949085170     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: 14643626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpn004     Document Type: Article

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