Forest seral stage and large woody debris abundance in an allegheny high plateau forest-stream system

Natural Areas Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 20-26

  Williams, Charles E ^a,b   Cook, Rachael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Western Pennsylvania Conservancy   (United States)

Author keywords

Allegheny High Plateau; Large woody debris; Old growth forest; Pennsylvania; Riparian forest

Indexed keywords

BASAL AREA; CONIFEROUS TREE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MORTALITY; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; RIPARIAN FOREST; WOODY DEBRIS;

CONIUM; PINUS STROBUS; TSUGA; TSUGA CANADENSIS;

EID: 77049116282     PISSN: 08858608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3375/043.030.0103     Document Type: Article

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