Postfire seed rain of black spruce, a semiserotinous conifer, in forests of interior Alaska

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1575-1588

  Johnstone, Jill ^a,b   Boby, Leslie ^c   Tissier, Emily ^c   Mack, Michelle ^b   Verbyla, Dave ^b   Walker, Xanthe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC STRESS; ACCURATE PREDICTION; AERIAL SEED BANK; BASAL AREA; BLACK SPRUCE; BLACK SPRUCE SEED; BOREAL FORESTS; FIRE SEVERITY; NORTH AMERICAN; PICEA MARIANA; PLANT REGENERATION; POST-FIRE; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SEED RAIN; SEED VIABILITY; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

FIRES; FORESTRY; RAIN;

SEED;

BASAL AREA; BOREAL FOREST; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; REGENERATION; SEED RAIN; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VIABILITY;

ALASKA; FOREST FIRES; PICEA MARIANA; RAIN; SEEDS; SOFTWOODS;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA; PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 69249104125     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X09-068     Document Type: Article

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