Can the use of continuous cover forestry alone maintain silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) in central European mountain forests?

Forestry

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 412-421

  Ficko, Andrej ^a   Roessiger, Joerg ^a,b,c   Bončina, Andrej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c National Forest Centre Forest Research Institute in Zvolen   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

conservation management; management strategies; population growth; recruitment; simultaneous optimization; ungulate browsing

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROWTH RATE; LOGGING (TIMBER); MONTANE FOREST; OPTIMIZATION; POPULATION DENSITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SILVICULTURE; STAND STRUCTURE;

EUROPE;

ABIES; ABIES ALBA; UNGULATA;

EID: 84984799170     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: 14643626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpw013     Document Type: Article

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