Norway spruce Picea abies regeneration and canopy disturbance in a Carpathian subalpine forest

Spruce: Ecology, Management and Conservation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-40

  Holeksa, Jan ^a   Zielonka, Tomasz ^a   Zywiec, Magdalena ^a  

^a W SZAFER INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Carpathians mountains; Deadwood; Field layer vegetation; Gap; Mast seeding; Norway spruce; Picea abies; Regeneration; Subalpine forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896439019     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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