Post-fire tree recruitment of a boreal larch forest in Northeast China

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 307, Issue , 2013, Pages 20-29

  Cai, Wenhua ^a,b   Yang, Jian ^a   Liu, Zhihua ^a   Hu, Yuanman ^a   Weisberg, Peter J ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Boosted regression tree; Boreal forest; Fire disturbance; Forest succession; Great Xing' an Mountains; Post fire forest recruitment

Indexed keywords

BOOSTED REGRESSION TREES; BOREAL FORESTS; FIRE DISTURBANCE; FOREST SUCCESSION; GREAT XING' AN MOUNTAINS; POST-FIRE;

FIRES; LANDFORMS; TRAJECTORIES;

FORESTRY;

BOREAL FOREST; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST FIRE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SUCCESSION; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION COVER;

FIRES; FORESTRY; MOUNTAINS;

CHINA; DA HINGGAN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84880971508     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.06.056     Document Type: Article

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