Maintaining mid-tolerant tree species with uneven-aged forest management: 9-year results from a novel group-selection experiment

Forestry

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 555-567

  Poznanovic, Sarah Klingsporn ^a   Webster, Christopher R ^a   Bump, Joseph K ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DECIDUOUS TREE; DISTURBANCE; DROUGHT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; OVERSTORY; REGENERATION; SAPLING; SEEDLING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TOLERANCE; TREEFALL;

EID: 84886050124     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: 14643626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpt025     Document Type: Article

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