Multiple successional pathways of boreal forest stands in central Canada

Ecography

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 208-219

  Taylor, Anthony R ^a   Chen, Han Y H ^a  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BOREAL FOREST; CHRONOSEQUENCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DISTURBANCE; DOMINANCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; OVERSTORY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SHADE TOLERANCE; SUCCESSION;

CANADA;

ABIES; ABIES BALSAMEA; BETULA PAPYRIFERA; CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA; PINUS BANKSIANA; POPULUS SP.; THUJA OCCIDENTALIS;

EID: 79953279673     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06455.x     Document Type: Article

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