Stand-replacing windthrow in the boreal forests of eastern Quebec

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 481-487

  Bouchard, Mathieu ^a   Pothier, David ^a   Ruel, Jean Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FORESTS; CANOPY COVERS; FOREST MANAGEMENTS; FORESTED AREAS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; REGIONAL SCALE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL SCALE; STAND AGES; WIND DIRECTIONS; WINDTHROW; YOUNG STANDS;

STORMS;

FORESTRY;

BOREAL FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUCCESSION; WIND DIRECTION; WINDTHROW;

FORESTRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WIND;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 64849091852     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X08-174     Document Type: Article

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