Site factors are more important than salvage logging for tree regeneration after wind disturbance in Central European forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 331, Issue , 2014, Pages 116-128

  Kramer, Kathrin ^a   Brang, Peter ^a   Bachofen, Hansheinrich ^a   Bugmann, Harald ^b   Wohlgemuth, Thomas ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Environmental predictors; Forest composition; Post disturbance regeneration; Regeneration dynamics; Succession; Windthrow gaps

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; STORMS; VEGETATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTORS; FOREST COMPOSITIONS; POST-DISTURBANCE REGENERATION; REGENERATION DYNAMICS; SUCCESSION; WINDTHROWS;

REFORESTATION;

BROWSING; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DOMINANCE; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST DYNAMICS; GAP DYNAMICS; LOGGING (TIMBER); MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MORTALITY; OVERSTORY; REGENERATION; SLOPE; SOIL PROFILE; VEGETATION COVER; WIND PROFILE; WINDTHROW;

FAGUS; PLANTS; REFORESTATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TREES;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

EID: 84906725764     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.08.002     Document Type: Article

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