Restoration of bottomland hardwood forests across a treatment intensity gradient

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 257, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1803-1814

  Stanturf, John A ^a   Gardiner, Emile S ^b   Shepard, James P ^c   Schweitzer, Callie J ^d   Portwood, C Jeffrey ^e   Dorris Jr , Lamar C ^f  

^a US Forest Service   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d US Forest Service   (United States)

^e Forester Real Estate Group   (United States)

^f US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Direct seeding; Facilitation; Interplanting; Native recolonization; Populus; Quercus

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; HARDWOODS; PLANT SHUTDOWNS; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION;

AFFORESTATION; DIRECT SEEDING; FACILITATION; INTERPLANTING; NATIVE RECOLONIZATION; POPULUS; QUERCUS;

CONSERVATION;

AFFORESTATION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DIRECT DRILLING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FACILITATION; INCENTIVE; LANDOWNER; RECOLONIZATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL;

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTATION; HARDWOODS; POPULUS; QUERCUS; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION; SEEDING;

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

POPULUS; POPULUS DELTOIDES; QUERCUS; QUERCUS NUTTALLII;

EID: 62049086127     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.01.052     Document Type: Article

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