Impact of slash removal, drag scarification, and mounding on lodgepole pine cone distribution and seedling regeneration after cut-to-length harvesting on high elevation sites

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-49

  Landhäusser, Simon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forest management; Microsite; Natural and artificial regeneration; Pinus contorta; Silvicultural system; Soil mechanical preparation; Soil temperature

Indexed keywords

FOREST MANAGEMENT; MICROSITE; NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL REGENERATION; PINUS CONTORTA; SILVICULTURAL SYSTEM; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

DRAG; HARVESTING; SOILS; TEMPERATURE;

FORESTRY;

DECOMPOSITION; EVERGREEN TREE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROWTH; HARVESTING; MORTALITY; REGENERATION; SEEDLING; SILVICULTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; PINUS CONTORTA; REFORESTATION; SCARIFICATION; SEEDLINGS; SLASH; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 67349225056     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.03.045     Document Type: Article

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