Topographic and compositional influences on disturbance patterns in a northern Maine old-growth landscape

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 259, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2399-2409

  Rowland, Erika L ^a   White, Alan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy gaps; Dendrochronology; Forest disturbance; Landscape; Topography

Indexed keywords

ABIES BALSAMEA; ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACTS; BALSAM FIR; BASE-LINE CONDITIONS; BIOLOGICAL LEGACIES; BIOPHYSICAL SYSTEMS; CANOPY GAPS; CANOPY OPENING; CHANGE DETECTION; COVER TYPES; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DISTURBANCE PATTERNS; EPISODIC PULSE; FOREST DISTURBANCES; FOREST TYPE; INSECT OUTBREAKS; KEY COMPONENT; LOW RATES; NATURAL DISTURBANCE; OLD-GROWTH; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; RED SPRUCE; SMALL GAPS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STAND STRUCTURES; TOLERANT SPECIES; TOPOGRAPHIC POSITIONS; TREE RINGS; TREE SPECIES; VARIABLE EFFECTS; WIND EVENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; SECURITY OF DATA;

FORESTRY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CANOPY GAP; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DICOTYLEDON; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; RECONSTRUCTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SHADE TOLERANCE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY;

ABIES AMABILIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DATA; FOREST CANOPY; FORESTRY; PICEA RUBENS;

MAINE; UNITED STATES;

ABIES; ABIES BALSAMEA; BETULA ALLEGHANIENSIS; HEXAPODA; PICEA; PICEA RUBENS;

EID: 77952111658     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.03.016     Document Type: Article

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