Modelling understorey light for seedling regeneration in continuous cover forestry canopies

Forestry

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 397-409

  Bertin, Sophie ^a,b   Palmroth, Sari ^c   Kim, Hyun S ^c   Perks, Mike P ^b   Mencuccini, Maurizio ^a   Oren, Ram ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREST CANOPY; FOREST COVER; GROWTH RATE; REGENERATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STAND STRUCTURE; TRANSMITTANCE; UNDERSTORY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

PICEA SITCHENSIS;

EID: 80053244413     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: 14643626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpr026     Document Type: Article

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