Pinus sylvestris forest regeneration under different post-fire restoration practices in the northwestern Italian Alps

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1365-1372

  Beghin, Rachele ^a   Lingua, Emanuele ^b   Garbarino, Matteo ^a   Lonati, Michele ^a   Bovio, Giovanni ^a   Motta, Renzo ^a   Marzano, Raffaella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aosta Valley; Natural regeneration; Pinus sylvestris L.; Post fire management; Salvage logging; Stand replacing fire

Indexed keywords

NATURAL REGENERATION; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; POST-FIRE; POST-FIRE MANAGEMENT; SALVAGE LOGGING;

CONSERVATION; FIRES; LANDFORMS; RESTORATION;

REFORESTATION;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FOREST EDGE; FOREST FIRE; PLANTATION FORESTRY; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALVAGING;

CONSERVATION; FIRES; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LOGGING; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION;

ITALY; VALLE D'AOSTA;

LARIX; LARIX DECIDUA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; POPULUS TREMULA; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 77955551184     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2010.06.014     Document Type: Article

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