Exclosures can favour natural regeneration of oak after conservation-oriented thinning in mixed forests in Sweden: A 10-year study

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 354, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-9

  Leonardsson, Jenny ^a   Löf, Magnus ^b   Götmark, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Browsing; Canopy disturbance; Forest restoration; Quercus spp; Succession; Ungulates

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; REFORESTATION; VEGETATION;

BROWSING; CANOPY DISTURBANCE; FOREST RESTORATION; QUERCUS SPP; SUCCESSION; UNGULATES;

FORESTRY;

DECIDUOUS TREE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MIXED FOREST; REFORESTATION; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SHRUB; SUCCESSION; THINNING; UNGULATE;

SWEDEN;

QUERCUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 84945478003     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2015.07.004     Document Type: Article

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