Do changes in soil properties after rooting by wild boars (sus scrofa) affect understory vegetation in swiss hardwood forests?

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 585-592

  Wirthner, Sven ^a   Schütz, Martin ^a   Page Dumroese, Deborah S ^b   Busse, Matt D ^c   Kirchner, James W ^a   Risch, Anita C ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH CONDITIONS; HARDWOOD FORESTS; MECHANICAL DISTURBANCE; MICROBIAL BIOMASS C; MINERAL SOILS; N AVAILABILITY; PLANT SPECIES DIVERSITY; SOIL PROPERTY; SUPPLY RATE; SWITZERLAND; UNDERSTORY VEGETATION; VEGETATION PROPERTIES; WILD BOARS;

HARDWOODS; SOILS; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

BIOMASS; DECADAL VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; ROOTING; SAPLING; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NITROGEN; UNDERSTORY; WILD POPULATION;

FORESTRY; HARDWOODS; PLANTS; SOIL;

SWITZERLAND;

SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 84857518607     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X2012-013     Document Type: Article

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