Do logging, followed by burning, and wildfire differ in their decadal scale effects on tall open-forest bryophytes and vascular plants?

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 679-686

  Turner, Perpetua A M ^a   Kirkpatrick, J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bryophyta; Decadal change; Logging; Regeneration burning; Tall open forest; Vascular plants; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

BRYOPHYTA; DECADAL CHANGE; LOGGING; REGENERATION BURNING; TALL OPEN-FOREST; VASCULAR PLANTS; WILDFIRE;

FORESTRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

FIRES;

BASAL AREA; BRYOPHYTE; BURNING; DECADAL VARIATION; DISTURBANCE; EVERGREEN FOREST; LOGGING (TIMBER); REGENERATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SILVICULTURE; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; VASCULAR PLANT; WILDFIRE;

COMBUSTION; FOREST FIRES; FORESTRY; LOGGING; PLANTS; REFORESTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; EUCALYPTUS; FILICOPHYTA; HYMENOPHYLLUM; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 67650147993     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.05.003     Document Type: Article

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