Influence of herbicides and felling, fertilization, and prescribed fire on longleaf pine growth and understory vegetation through ten growing seasons and the outcome of an ensuing wildfire

New Forests

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 55-73

  Haywood, James D ^a,b  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b Alexandria Forestry Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Arson; Diammonium phosphate; Hexazinone; Pinus palustris Mill.; Sethoxydim; Triclopyr; Vegetation management

Indexed keywords

HERBICIDES; REFORESTATION; VEGETATION;

ARSON; DIAMMONIUM PHOSPHATES; HEXAZINONE; PINUS PALUSTRIS MILL; SETHOXYDIM; TRICLOPYR; VEGETATION MANAGEMENT;

FIRES;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONIFEROUS TREE; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RATE; HERB; HERBICIDE; PHOSPHORUS; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SAVANNA; SURVIVAL; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION TYPE; WILDFIRE;

FIRES; HERBICIDES; MANAGEMENT; PINUS PALUSTRIS; PLANTS; PYRIDINE; REFORESTATION;

LOUISIANA; UNITED STATES;

PINUS PALUSTRIS;

EID: 78650520290     PISSN: 01694286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11056-010-9209-9     Document Type: Article

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