Establishment of natural regeneration under severe browsing pressure from white-tailed Deer after group seed-tree cutting with scarification on Anticosti Island

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 596-605

  Beguin, Julien ^a   Prévost, Marcel ^b   Pothier, David ^a   Côté, Steeve D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABIES BALSAMEA; BALSAM FIRS; BETULA PAPYRIFERA; CONIFER SPECIES; DIFFERENT SIZES; DOUBLE PASS; HERBIVORY; NATURAL REGENERATIONS; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; QUEBEC , CANADA; SINGLE PASS; SOIL SCARIFICATIONS; TREE CUTTINGS; TREE SPECIES; WHITE-TAILED DEERS;

SEED;

FORESTRY;

BROWSING; CONIFEROUS TREE; DICOTYLEDON; EVERGREEN TREE; HARVESTING; HERBIVORY; MAMMAL; REGENERATION; SCARIFICATION;

ANIMALS; BETULA; FORESTRY; SEEDS; SOFTWOODS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TREES;

ANTICOSTI ISLAND; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

ABIES; ABIES BALSAMEA; BETULA PAPYRIFERA; BETULA PENDULA; CERVIDAE; CONIFEROPHYTA; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; PYRUS;

EID: 64849083195     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X08-196     Document Type: Article

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