Influence of precommercial thinning on understory vegetation of young-growth sitka spruce forests in southeastern Alaska

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 619-628

  Cole, Elizabeth C ^a   Hanley, Thomas A ^b   Newton, Michael ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASS LEVEL; FOOD RESOURCES; GROWING SEASON; POST TREATMENT; PRE-COMMERCIAL THINNING; PRE-TREATMENT; SITKA SPRUCE; SPECIFIC EFFECTS; TSUGA HETEROPHYLLA; UNDERSTORY COVER; UNDERSTORY VEGETATION; VEGETATIVE COVER;

SNOW;

FORESTRY;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DEER; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GRAZING; GROWING SEASON; HABITAT RESTORATION; THINNING; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION COVER;

FORESTRY; PICEA SITCHENSIS; SNOW; SOFTWOODS; THINNING; TSUGA HETEROPHYLLA;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

CERVIDAE; CONIFEROPHYTA; CONIUM; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS COLUMBIANUS; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS SITKENSIS; PICEA; PICEA SITCHENSIS; TSUGA; TSUGA HETEROPHYLLA;

EID: 77951669731     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X10-009     Document Type: Article

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