Habitat preferences of an arboreal forage lichen in a Sierra Nevada old-growth mixed-conifer forest

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1034-1041

  Rambo, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITISH COLUMBIA; DOUGLAS; FIR TREES; HABITAT PREFERENCES; JEFFREY PINE; MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATES; MIXED-CONIFER FORESTS; OLD-GROWTH; SIERRA NEVADA; TRANSPLANT GROWTH; TREE HEIGHT; VAPOR PRESSURE DEFICIT; VERTICAL GRADIENTS;

CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; HYDRATION; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

ECOLOGY;

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ARBOREAL SPECIES; BIOMASS; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FORAGE; FOREST CANOPY; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT SELECTION; HYDRATION; LICHEN; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MIXED FOREST; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; STREAM; VAPOR PRESSURE;

ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; HYDRATION; METEOROLOGY; SUGAR;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

ABIES; ABIES CONCOLOR; ABIES GRANDIS; ABIES MAGNIFICA; BRYORIA; BRYORIA FREMONTII; CALOCEDRUS DECURRENS; CONIFEROPHYTA; PINUS JEFFREYI; PINUS LAMBERTIANA;

EID: 77953193026     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X10-058     Document Type: Article

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