Postfire seedling recruitment at the southern limit of lichen woodland

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2299-2306

  Moss, Melissa ^a   Hermanutz, Luise ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK SPRUCE; BURN SEVERITY; BURN TREATMENT; HERBIVORY; LICHEN WOODLANDS; LIMITED DATA; NATIONAL PARKS; NEWFOUNDLAND , CANADA; NON-NATIVE; PICEA MARIANA; POST-FIRE; PRIMARY MECHANISM; SEEDLING MORTALITY; SEEDLING RECRUITMENT; SMALL MAMMALS;

DROUGHT; EMPLOYMENT; MAMMALS; PARKS; REFORESTATION;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DATA SET; FOREST FIRE; HERBIVORY; LICHEN; MORTALITY; NATIONAL PARK; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SMALL MAMMAL; WOODLAND;

AGRICULTURE; DROUGHT; EMPLOYMENT; MAMMALS; MORTALITY; PICEA MARIANA; REFORESTATION;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; TERRA NOVA NATIONAL PARK;

LEPUS AMERICANUS; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 72649090689     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X09-150     Document Type: Article

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