A fifty-year reconstruction of annual changes in the spatial distribution of Pinus banksiana stands: Does pattern fit competition theory?

Plant Ecology

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 137-152

  Metsaranta, Juha M ^a,b   Lieffers, Victor J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competition; Defoliation; Dendroecology; Mortality; Point pattern analysis; Stand dynamics

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; CONIFEROUS TREE; DEFOLIATION; DENDROECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MORTALITY; MOTH; RECONSTRUCTION; SPACING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STAND DYNAMICS; TREE RING;

CANADA; MANITOBA; NORTH AMERICA; SASKATCHEWAN;

CHORISTONEURA PINUS; PINUS BANKSIANA;

EID: 52649123656     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-008-9419-9     Document Type: Article

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