The interacting ecological effects of large-scale disturbances and salvage logging on montane spruce forest regeneration in the western European Alps

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 292, Issue , 2013, Pages 19-28

  Bottero, Alessandra ^a   Garbarino, Matteo ^a,c   Long, James N ^b   Motta, Renzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Disturbance interactions; Insect outbreak; Picea abies (L.) H. Karst; Salvage logging; Silviculture; Wind storm

Indexed keywords

INSECT OUTBREAKS; PICEA ABIES; SALVAGE LOGGING; SILVICULTURE; WIND STORMS;

LANDFORMS; PLANTS (BOTANY); STORMS; WOOD FUELS;

REFORESTATION;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; HERB; INSECT; KARST; LOGGING (TIMBER); OVERSTORY; PEST OUTBREAK; REGENERATION; SHRUB; SILVICULTURE; STAND DYNAMICS; STORM; UNDERSTORY;

ALPS; ITALY; VALLE D'AOSTA;

ABIES; ABIES ALBA; HEXAPODA; LARIX; LARIX DECIDUA; LYMANTRIA; LYMANTRIA MONACHA; PICEA; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 84872524561     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.12.021     Document Type: Article

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