Survival and growth of balsam fir seedlings and saplings under multiple controlled ungulate densities

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 276, Issue , 2012, Pages 96-103

  Hidding, Bert ^a   Tremblay, Jean Pierre ^a   Côté, Steeve D ^a  

^a CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Balsam fir; Browsing; Herbivore resistance; Matrix models; Tree demography; White tailed deer

Indexed keywords

BALSAM FIR; BROWSING; MATRIX MODEL; TREE DEMOGRAPHY; WHITE-TAILED DEER;

EXPERIMENTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; REFORESTATION;

ECOLOGY;

BROWSING; CONIFEROUS TREE; DEER; DEMOGRAPHY; DISTURBANCE; FOREST COVER; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORE; LOGGING (TIMBER); MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; REGENERATION; SAPLING; SEEDLING; SURVIVAL; UNGULATE;

ANTICOSTI ISLAND; CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

ABIES; ABIES BALSAMEA; CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 84860146531     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.03.023     Document Type: Article

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