Effects of vegetation control treatments for release of Engelmann spruce from a mixed-shrub community in southern British Columbia - Year 15 results

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 583-592

  Comeau, Philip G ^a   Harper, George J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Glyphosate; Herbicides; Interior Cedar Hemlock Zone; Interior spruce; Manual; Mixed shrub complex; Vegetation management

Indexed keywords

HERBICIDES; WEED CONTROL;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; GLYPHOSATE HERBICIDE; GLYPHOSATES; INITIAL TREATMENT; MANUAL; MIXED SHRUB COMPLEX; VEGETATION CONTROL; VEGETATION MANAGEMENT;

VEGETATION;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONIFEROUS TREE; HERBICIDE; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; SHRUB; SURVIVAL; VEGETATION COVER;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

CONIUM; PICEA; PICEA ENGELMANNII;

EID: 69949085200     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc85583-4     Document Type: Article

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