Variable retention harvesting influences biotic and abiotic drivers of regeneration in Nothofagus pumilio southern Patagonian forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 289, Issue , 2013, Pages 106-114

  Martínez Pastur, Guillermo J ^a   Soler Esteban, Rosina ^a   Pulido, Fernando ^b   Lencinas, María Vanessa ^a  

^a CENTRO AUSTRAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS CADIC CONICET   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aggregated retention; Dispersed retention; Herbivory; Nothofagus pumilio; Regeneration cycle; Seed predation

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATED RETENTION; DISPERSED RETENTION; HERBIVORY; NOTHOFAGUS; REGENERATION CYCLES; SEED PREDATION;

AGGREGATES; HARVESTING;

REFORESTATION;

DECIDUOUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FRUIT; FRUITING; HARVESTING; HERBIVORY; MICROCLIMATE; REGENERATION; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE; REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL; SEED PREDATION; SEEDLING; SILVICULTURE; STAND STRUCTURE;

AGGREGATE; HARVESTING; NOTHOFAGUS PUMILIO; REFORESTATION; RETENTION; SEEDS;

ARGENTINA; PATAGONIA;

HEXAPODA; NOTHOFAGUS PUMILIO; RODENTIA;

EID: 84869876700     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.09.032     Document Type: Article

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