Status and trends of late-successional and old-growth forests

USDA Forest Service - General Technical Report PNW-GTR

Volumn , Issue 853, 2011, Pages 1-48

  Moeur, Melinda ^a   Ohmann, Janet L ^b   Kennedy, Robert E ^c   Cohen, Warren B ^b   Gregory, Matthew J ^c   Yang, Zhiqiang ^c   Roberts, Heather M ^c   Spies, Thomas A ^b   Fiorella, Maria ^d  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d U S DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest monitoring; Gradient nearest neighbor imputation; Landtrendr change detection; Old growth; Pacific northwest

Indexed keywords

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FEDERAL SYSTEM; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LAND USE; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; OVERSTORY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUCCESSION; TREND ANALYSIS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WILDFIRE;

CALIFORNIA; OREGON; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 82455210320     PISSN: 08874840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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