The ecological effects of pit and mounds created by a windthrow on understory of Hyrcanian forests

Silva Balcanica

Volumn , Issue 9, 2008, Pages 13-28

  Kooch, Yahya ^a   Hosseini, Seyed Mohsen ^a   Akbarinia, Moslem ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Microclimate; Microrelief; Pit and mound; Regeneration; Species composition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855885550     PISSN: 13118706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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