Lessons from long-term studies of harvest methods in southwestern ponderosa pine-Gambel oak forests on the Fort Valley Experimental Forest, Arizona, U.S.A.

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 260, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 193-206

  Sánchez Meador, Andrew J ^a   Moore, Margaret M ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arizona; Forest stand dynamics; Fort Valley Experimental Forest; Land use legacies; Long term data; Permanent plots; Spatial patterns

Indexed keywords

ARIZONA; FOREST LAND; FOREST STAND; PERMANENT PLOT; SPATIAL PATTERNS;

DYNAMICS; EMPLOYMENT; FORESTRY; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; SEED; SITE SELECTION;

HARVESTING;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DATA SET; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GRAZING; HARVESTING; LAND USE; LIVESTOCK FARMING; PATCHINESS; SEEDLING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STAND DYNAMICS; STAND STRUCTURE; VEGETATION MAPPING;

ANIMALS; ARIZONA; DATA; DYNAMICS; EMPLOYMENT; FORESTRY; FORESTS; HARVESTING; LAND USE; SEEDS; SITES;

ARIZONA; FORT VALLEY EXPERIMENTAL FOREST; UNITED STATES;

QUERCUS GAMBELII;

EID: 77953173673     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.04.016     Document Type: Article

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