Short-term response of the herbaceous layer within leave patches after harvest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 257, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1014-1025

  de Graaf, M ^a   Roberts, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Composition; Disturbance; Forest harvesting; Herbaceous layer; Leave patch; Persistence

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; FORESTRY; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; OCEAN HABITATS; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; SOILS; SUBSTRATES;

COMPOSITION; DISTURBANCE; FOREST HARVESTING; HERBACEOUS LAYER; LEAVE PATCH; PERSISTENCE;

HARVESTING;

CLEARCUTTING; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISTURBANCE; HABITAT SELECTION; HARVESTING; HERB; PATCHINESS; PERSISTENCE; RECOLONIZATION;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CORRELATION; ECOLOGY; EXPERIMENTATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; LEAVES; MINERALS; SILICA; SILICATES; SOIL; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SUBSTRATES;

EID: 58149314024     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.11.007     Document Type: Article

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