Silvicultural approaches for management of eastern white pine to minimize impacts of damaging agents

Forest Pathology

Volumn 40, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 332-346

  Ostry, M E ^a   Laflamme, G ^b   Katovich, S A ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DAMAGE; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOMINANCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HERBIVORY; PRUNING; REFORESTATION; REGENERATION; RUST DISEASE; SILVICULTURE; SITE SELECTION;

NORTH AMERICA;

CRONARTIUM RIBICOLA; PINUS STROBUS;

EID: 77955593395     PISSN: 14374781     EISSN: 14390329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0329.2010.00661.x     Document Type: Review

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