Dry coniferous forest restoration and understory plant diversity: The importance of community heterogeneity and the scale of observation

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 260, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1702-1707

  Dodson, Erich K ^a   Peterson, David W ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Burning; Colonization; Ponderosa pine; Spatial scale; Thinning

Indexed keywords

BETA DIVERSITY; BURNING; COLONIZATION; PONDEROSA PINES; SPATIAL SCALE; THINNING;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; RESTORATION;

FORESTRY;

COLONIZATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FUEL; HERB; HETEROGENEITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SAMPLING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; THINNING; UNDERSTORY; WILDFIRE;

BIODIVERSITY; COMBUSTION; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; PINUS PONDEROSA; RESTORATION; THINNING; WESTERN USA;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 77957318523     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.08.012     Document Type: Article

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