The effects of site characteristics on the landscape-level windthrow regime in the North Shore region of Quebec, Canada

Forestry

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 159-171

  Waldron, Kaysandra ^a   Ruel, Jean Claude ^a   Gauthier, Sylvie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLEARCUTTING; DAMAGE; DATABASE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DISEASE CONTROL; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST FIRE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; RETURN PERIOD; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WINDTHROW;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 84875207537     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: 14643626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cps061     Document Type: Article

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