The potential of transforming simple structured pine plantations into mixed Mediterranean forests through natural regeneration along a rainfall gradient

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 259, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 14-23

  Osem, Yagil ^a   Zangy, Ela ^a   Bney Moshe, Eitan ^a   Moshe, Yosi ^a   Karni, Naftali ^b   Nisan, Yehuda ^b  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b Forest Management Monitoring and GIS   (Israel)

Author keywords

Pinus halepensis; Precipitation; Stand conversion; Understory; Uneven aged forest

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RAINFALL; BROADLEAVED TREES; CONIFER PLANTATIONS; FOREST SITES; GENERAL TRENDS; MEDITERRANEAN FOREST; NATURAL REGENERATION; NEGEV DESERT; PINE PLANTATIONS; PLANTING DENSITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SITE PREPARATION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURFACE COVER; THINNING REGIMES; TREE REGENERATION; TREE SPECIES; UNEVEN-AGED;

AGRICULTURE; FACINGS;

REFORESTATION;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PLANTATION FORESTRY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SEMIARID REGION; SILVICULTURE; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNDERSTORY;

AGRICULTURE; FACINGS; FORESTRY; PINUS HALEPENSIS; PRECIPITATION; REFORESTATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; GALILEE; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NEGEV; NORTHERN DISTRICT; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PINUS HALEPENSIS;

EID: 72149091967     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.09.034     Document Type: Article

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