Natural development and regeneration of a Central European montane spruce forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 260, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 707-714

  Svoboda, Miroslav ^a   Fraver, Shawn ^b   Janda, Pavel ^a   Bače, Radek ^a   Zenáhlíková, Jitka ^a  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bark beetle; Competition; Dead wood; Dendrochronology; Stem mapped plots; Wind disturbance

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGE STRUCTURES; BARK BEETLE; BASAL AREA; BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY; CANOPY DISTURBANCE; CANOPY STRUCTURE; CENTRAL EUROPE; COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; CURRENT STRUCTURE; CZECH REPUBLIC; DEAD WOOD; FOREST REGENERATION; GROWTH PATTERNS; INCREMENT CORE; LOW-INTENSITY; NATURAL DENSITY; NATURAL REGENERATION; NATURAL TRANSITION; NORWAY SPRUCE; PATTERN ANALYSIS; REINITIATION; SALVAGE LOGGING; SEMI-NATURAL FORESTS; SEVERE WINDSTORM; SNAG DENSITY; SPATIAL PATTERN ANALYSIS; SPRUCE FOREST; TIMBER PRODUCTION; TREE DIAMETER; TREE REGENERATION; WIND DISTURBANCE;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPETITION; DEBRIS; STORMS; SUBSTRATES;

REFORESTATION;

BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FIELDWORK; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MONTANE FOREST; MORTALITY; PEST OUTBREAK; REGENERATION; SELECTIVE LOGGING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STORM; VEGETATION MAPPING; WOOD;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITION; CZECH; DEAD WOOD; FIBER DEBRIS; INSECTS; METEOROLOGY; REFORESTATION; STEM FIBERS; SUBSTRATES;

BOHEMIAN FOREST; BOHEMIAN MASSIF;

COLEOPTERA; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 77954951628     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.05.027     Document Type: Article

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