Natural mortality in thinning and fertilisation experiments with pine and spruce in Sweden

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 260, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 353-360

  Elfving, Björn ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Maximum basal area; Recovery of dead trees; Self thinning; Wind throw

Indexed keywords

BASAL AREA; DEAD TREES; FERTILE SITES; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MEAN SIZE; NORWAY SPRUCE; OBSERVATION PERIOD; PICEA ABIES (L.) KARST; PINE STAND; SCOTS PINE; SELF-THINNING; SPRUCE STANDS; STAND DENSITIES; STEM NUMBERS; VOLUME GROWTH;

EXPERIMENTS; RECOVERY;

FORESTRY;

BASAL AREA; CONIFEROUS TREE; DISTURBANCE; EVERGREEN TREE; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FORESTRY MODELING; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SELF THINNING; SITE FIDELITY;

BASAL AREA; FERTILIZATION; FORESTRY; GROWTH; MORTALITY; RECOVERY; THINNING;

SWEDEN;

EID: 77954815092     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.04.025     Document Type: Article

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