Development of sessile oak and European hornbeam sprouts after thinning

Forests

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2017, Pages

  Adamec, Zdeněk ^a   Kadavý, Jan ^a   Fedorová, Barbora ^a   Knott, Robert ^a   Kneifl, Michal ^a   Drápela, Karel ^a  

^a MENDEL UNIVERSITY IN BRNO   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Light conditions; Re sprouting; Stool basal area; Stump sprouting probability; Thinning intensity

Indexed keywords

LINEAR REGRESSION;

BASAL AREA; EUROPEAN HORNBEAMS; LIGHT CONDITIONS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; SELECTIVE THINNING; SITE CONDITIONS; STUMP SPROUTING; THINNING INTENSITY;

PROBABILITY;

DECIDUOUS TREE; GROWTH RESPONSE; HEIGHT; JUVENILE; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; THINNING;

SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPROUTS; THINNING;

CARPINUS; CARPINUS BETULUS; QUERCUS PETRAEA;

EID: 85028351045     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f8090308     Document Type: Article

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