Impact of postfire management on forest regeneration in a managed hemiboreal forest, Estonia

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1192-1197

  Parro, Kristi ^a   Metslaid, Marek ^a   Renel, Getter ^b   Sims, Allan ^a   Stanturf, John A ^c   Jõgiste, Kalev ^a   Köster, Kajar ^a,d  

^a ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^b Rakvere City Government   (Estonia)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Diversity; Natural regeneration; Salvage logging; Succession; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; FIRE HAZARDS; FIRES;

DIVERSITY; NATURAL REGENERATION; SALVAGE LOGGING; SUCCESSION; WILDFIRE;

REFORESTATION;

ABUNDANCE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; REGENERATION; SUCCESSION; WILDFIRE;

ESTONIA;

BETULA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; POPULUS TREMULA;

EID: 84944574334     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjfr-2014-0514     Document Type: Article

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