Wildfire and forest harvest disturbances in the boreal forest leave different long-lasting spatial signatures

Plant and Soil

Volumn 364, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 39-54

  Lorente, Miren ^a   Parsons, William F J ^b   McIntire, Eliot J B ^a,c   Munson, Alison D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Black spruce boreal forest; Ecosystem management; Forest disturbance; Land use legacies; Spatial modelling

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST FIRE; HARVESTING; LAND USE CHANGE; LOGGING (TIMBER); NUMERICAL MODEL; REGENERATION; SHRUB; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUCCESSION; WILDFIRE;

PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 84873724029     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-012-1331-3     Document Type: Article

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