Can understorey native woodland plant species regenerate under exotic pine plantations using natural succession?

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 308, Issue , 2013, Pages 136-144

  Onaindia, Miren ^a   Ametzaga Arregi, Ibone ^a   San Sebastián, Mikel ^a   Mitxelena, Anaïs ^a   Rodríguez Loinaz, Gloria ^a   Peña, Lorena ^a   Alday, Josu G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exotic pine plantation; Forest management; Native woodland; Pinus radiata; Quercus robur; Restoration

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITIONAL DIFFERENCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; MANAGEMENT INTERVENTIONS; NATIVE WOODLAND; PINE PLANTATIONS; PINUS RADIATA; QUERCUS ROBUR; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RESTORATION; VEGETATION;

REFORESTATION;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS TREE; FERN; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANTATION; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SUCCESSION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; UNDERSTORY; WOODLAND;

ECOSYSTEMS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PINUS RADIATA; PLANTATIONS; QUERCUS ROBUR; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 84882956806     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.07.046     Document Type: Article

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