Seeing the forest for the heterogeneous trees: Stand-scale resource distributions emerge from tree-scale structure

Ecological Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1578-1588

  Boyden, Suzanne ^a   Montgomery, Rebecca ^b   Reich, Peter B ^b,c   Palik, Brian ^d  

^a CLARION UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregate retention silviculture; Competition; Dispersal patterns; Forest structure; Gap size; Heterogeneity; Light; Likelihood modeling; Neighborhood index; Nutrients; Pinus resinosa; Variable retention harvesting

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DISPERSAL; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HARVESTING; HETEROGENEITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; REGENERATION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SILVICULTURE; SOIL NUTRIENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STAND STRUCTURE; UNDERSTORY;

MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

PINUS RESINOSA;

EID: 84864121650     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1469.1     Document Type: Article

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