Deadwood abundance in Labrador high-boreal black spruce forests

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 131-142

  Hagemann, Ulrike ^a   Moroni, Martin T ^b   Makeschin, Franz ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCES; BLACK SPRUCE FORESTS; BLACK SPRUCES; BOREAL FORESTS; CONIFEROUS FORESTS; HARVESTED STANDS; OLD GROWTHS; OLD-GROWTH STANDS; PICEA MARIANA; POST FIRES; STANDING DEAD TREES; VOLUME REDUCTIONS; WOODY DEBRIS;

BIODIVERSITY; DEBRIS; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; HARVESTING;

FORESTRY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BOREAL FOREST; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DEAD WOOD; DECOMPOSITION; FOREST FIRE; FOREST INVENTORY; HARVESTING; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; REGROWTH; SNAG; WOODY DEBRIS;

BIODIVERSITY; FIBER DEBRIS; FOREST FIRES; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; LOGS; PICEA MARIANA; WOOD;

CANADA; LABRADOR; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA;

PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 64849116081     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X08-166     Document Type: Article

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