Links between biomass and tree demography in a northern hardwood forest: A decade of stability and change in Hubbard Brook Valley, New Hampshire

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1369-1379

  van Doorn, Natalie S ^a   Battles, John J ^a   Fahey, Timothy J ^b   Siccama, Thomas G ^c   Schwarz, Paul A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DEMOGRAPHY; POPULATION STATISTICS;

BIOMASS POTENTIAL; DIAMETER-AT-BREAST HEIGHTS; DIRECTIONAL CHANGES; HUBBARD BROOK EXPERIMENTAL FOREST; NORTHERN HARDWOOD FOREST; RELATIVE GROWTH RATE; TREE DEMOGRAPHIES; TREE RECRUITMENTS;

FORESTRY;

DECADAL VARIATION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DEMOGRAPHY; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY; PHYTOMASS; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SAMPLING;

ABIES BALSAMEA; ACER SACCHARUM; BETULA; BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; BIOMASS; ECOLOGY; EXTRACTIVES; FORESTRY; LAKES; NEW HAMPSHIRE; PLANTS;

HUBBARD BROOK EXPERIMENTAL FOREST; NEW HAMPSHIRE; UNITED STATES;

ABIES; ABIES BALSAMEA; ACER; ACER SACCHARUM; BETULA ALLEGHANIENSIS; BETULA PAPYRIFERA; PICEA; PICEA RUBENS;

EID: 79960768663     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x11-063     Document Type: Article

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