Windthrow and salvage logging in an old-growth hemlock-northern hardwoods forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 259, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 56-64

  Lang, Katharyn D ^a   Schulte, Lisa A ^a   Guntenspergen, Glenn R ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Flambeau River; Forest recovery; Microtopography; Post disturbance logging; Sanitary logging; Tip up; Wind; Wisconsin

Indexed keywords

ACER SACCHARUM; BASAL AREA; BIOLOGICAL LEGACIES; DECIDUOUS SPECIES; FOREST RECOVERY; MATURE TREES; MICRO TOPOGRAPHY; MICRORELIEF; NORTHERN HARDWOODS; OLD-GROWTH; ORGANIC CARBON CONTENTS; ORGANIC NITROGEN; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; SALVAGE LOGGING; SANITARY LOGGING; SAPLING DENSITIES; SHRUB LAYERS; SOIL BULK DENSITY; STATE FORESTS; SYSTEM COMPONENTS; TIP-UP MOUNDS; TSUGA CANADENSIS; WIND DISTURBANCE; WINDTHROWS; WISCONSIN;

BIODIVERSITY; HARDWOODS; ORGANIC CARBON; RIVERS; SOILS;

REFORESTATION;

BASAL AREA; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; BULK DENSITY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HERB; LOGGING (TIMBER); MICROTOPOGRAPHY; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC NITROGEN; OVERSTORY; PH; SAPLING; SEEDLING; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNDERSTORY; WINDTHROW;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; FORESTRY; HARDWOODS; LOGGING; RECOVERY; REFORESTATION; RIVERS; SOIL;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

ACER; ACER SACCHARUM; ATHYRIUM FILIX-FEMINA; BETULA ALLEGHANIENSIS; BRYOPHYTA; CONIUM; HYDROPHYLLUM VIRGINIANUM; MALVACEAE; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; SOLIDAGO; TILIA AMERICANA; TSUGA; TSUGA CANADENSIS; ULMUS; ULMUS AMERICANA;

EID: 71949111879     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.09.042     Document Type: Article

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