Landscape and local factors affecting northern white cedar (Thuja occidentalis) recruitment in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, Wisconsin (U.S.A.)

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 438-453

  Forester, James D ^a,b   Anderson, Dean P ^a   Turner, Monica G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BROWSING; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST EDGE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; POPULATION DENSITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; SIZE EFFECT;

CHEQUAMEGON-NICOLET NATIONAL FOREST; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; THUJA OCCIDENTALIS;

EID: 54949153110     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2008)160[438:LALFAN]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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