Logging pattern and landscape changes over the last century at the boreal and deciduous forest transition in Eastern Canada

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 171-184

  Boucher, Yan ^a,b   Arseneault, Dominique ^a   Sirois, Luc ^a   Blais, Louis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b MINISTÈRE DES RESSOURCES NATURELLES ET DE LA FAUNE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Balsam fir; Ecosystem based management; Historical forestry maps; Land cover change; Logging constraint; Physical environment; Preindustrial forest; Reference conditions; Timber floating

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST COVER; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LOGGING (TIMBER); MAPPING METHOD; REGENERATION; STAND STRUCTURE; TIMBER HARVESTING; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

ABIES BALSAMEA; CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 59449093917     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-008-9294-8     Document Type: Article

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