Regeneration responses to gap size and coarse woody debris within natural disturbance-based silvicultural systems in northeastern Minnesota, USA

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 262, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1215-1222

  Bolton, Nicholas W ^a   D'Amato, Anthony W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acer saccharum; Betula alleghaniensis; Downed coarse woody debris; Natural disturbance based forest management; Seedling recruitment patterns

Indexed keywords

ACER SACCHARUM; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BETULA ALLEGHANIENSIS; CANOPY GAPS; CANOPY OPENING; CLOSED CANOPIES; COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; GAP FORMATION; GAP SIZE; GREAT LAKES; MANAGED FOREST; MANAGEMENT REGIME; MICROSITES; MINERAL SOILS; MINNESOTA , USA; NATIVE TREE SPECIES; NATIVE TREES; NATURAL DISTURBANCE; NORTHERN HARDWOOD FOREST; NORTHERN HARDWOODS; POST TREATMENT; REGENERATION RESPONSE; SAPLING DENSITIES; SEEDLING RECRUITMENT; SILVICULTURAL SYSTEM; TREE DIVERSITY; TREE REGENERATION; UNDISTURBED FORESTS;

BIODIVERSITY; DEBRIS; ECOLOGY; EMPLOYMENT; HARDWOODS; LAKES; PLANT EXTRACTS;

REFORESTATION;

BIODIVERSITY; COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; DECIDUOUS TREE; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FLOOR; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NATIVE SPECIES; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REFORESTATION; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SAPLING; SILVICULTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION; TOLERANCE;

ACER SACCHARUM; BETULA ALLEGHANIENSIS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; EMPLOYMENT; EXTRACTIVES; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LAKES; PLANTS; REFORESTATION; SILVICULTURE;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

ACER; ACER SACCHARUM; BETULA ALLEGHANIENSIS;

EID: 79960618484     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.06.019     Document Type: Article

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