Can thinning alleviate negative effects of fertilization on boreal forest floor vegetation?

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 310, Issue , 2013, Pages 382-392

  Hedwall, P O ^a   Strengbom, J ^a   Nordin, A ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Eutrophication; Forest undergrowth; Forest understory; Intensive forestry; Plant diversity

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAS; FOREST UNDERGROWTH; FOREST UNDERSTORY; INTENSIVE FORESTRY; LATE-SUCCESSIONAL SPECIES; NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORIES; PLANT DIVERSITY; SILVICULTURAL PRACTICES;

BIOMASS; EUTROPHICATION; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS POWER; BOREAL FOREST; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FOREST FLOOR; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; SUCCESSION; THINNING; TREE; VEGETATION;

SWEDEN;

EID: 84884379816     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.08.040     Document Type: Article

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