Soil change after 50 years of converting Norway spruce dominated age class forests into single tree selection forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 338, Issue , 2015, Pages 176-182

  Pötzelsberger, Elisabeth ^a   Hasenauer, Hubert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Age class forest; Degradation; Forest management; Norway spruce; Plenter forests; Soil recovery

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DEGRADATION; NITROGEN; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOILS;

AGE CLASS FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; INTENSIVE FOREST MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT REGIME; NORWAY SPRUCE; PLENTER FORESTS; SINGLE TREE SELECTION; SOIL RECOVERY;

FORESTRY;

AGE CLASS; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL STRUCTURE;

DEGRADATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTS; PICEA ABIES; RECOVERY; SOIL;

PICEA ABIES;

EID: 84917708669     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.11.026     Document Type: Article

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