Salvage logging affects early post-fire tree composition in Canadian boreal forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 325, Issue , 2014, Pages 118-127

  Boucher, Dominique ^a   Gauthier, Sylvie ^a   Noël, Josée ^b   Greene, David F ^c   Bergeron, Yves ^b  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN ABITIBI TÉMISCAMINGUE   (Canada)

^c Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aerial seedbank species; Among site heterogeneity; Fire severity; Post fire composition; Salvage logging; Vegetative reproduction species

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; LOSSES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

AMONG-SITE HETEROGENEITY; FIRE SEVERITY; POST-FIRE; SALVAGE LOGGING; VEGETATIVE REPRODUCTION SPECIES;

FIRES;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; FIRE BEHAVIOR; HETEROGENEITY; LOGGING (TIMBER); RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SALVAGING; SEED BANK;

BIODIVERSITY; FOREST FIRES; LOGGING; PLANTS;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 84902074224     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.04.002     Document Type: Article

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