Factors influencing ponderosa pine regeneration in the southwestern USA

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 264, Issue , 2012, Pages 10-19

  Puhlick, Joshua J ^a   Laughlin, Daniel C ^a,b   Moore, Margaret M ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Climate; Coconino National Forest; Ecological restoration; Forest Inventory and Analysis; Structural equation modeling; Tree regeneration

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION; FOREST INVENTORY AND ANALYSIS; NATIONAL FORESTS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TREE REGENERATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); RESTORATION; SOILS;

REFORESTATION;

BASAL AREA; BASALT; CONIFEROUS TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FOREST INVENTORY; OVERSTORY; PH; PREDICTION; REGENERATION; SEEDLING; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL TEXTURE;

ARIZONA; COCONINO NATIONAL FOREST; NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

MUHLENBERGIA; MUHLENBERGIA VIRESCENS; PINUS PONDEROSA VAR. SCOPULORUM;

EID: 80055017753     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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