Spatially random mortality in old-growth red pine forests of northern Minnesota

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 899-907

  Aakala, Tuomas ^a,c   Fraver, Shawn ^b   Palik, Brian J ^b   D'Amato, Anthony W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURES; DEAD TREES; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FOREST DYNAMICS; MINNESOTA; MINNESOTA , USA; MORTALITY PATTERNS; MORTALITY RATE; OBSERVATION PERIOD; OLD-GROWTH; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; OLD-GROWTH STANDS; PAIR CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; PINE FOREST; PINUS RESINOSA; RIPLEY'S K-FUNCTION; SPATIAL POINT PATTERN; TIME SPAN; TREE MORTALITY;

RANDOM PROCESSES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

REFORESTATION;

AGE STRUCTURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONIFEROUS FOREST; MORTALITY; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; REGENERATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STAND DYNAMICS;

MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

PINUS RESINOSA;

EID: 84860276315     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X2012-044     Document Type: Article

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