Salvaging has minimal impacts on vegetation regeneration 10 years after severe windthrow

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 406, Issue , 2017, Pages 19-27

  Taylor, Anthony R ^a,b   MacLean, David A ^b   McPhee, Donnie ^a   Dracup, Evan ^a   Keys, Kevin ^c  

^a NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^c NOVA SCOTIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Diversity; Regeneration; Salvage; Succession

Indexed keywords

REFORESTATION; SOILS; VEGETATION; WOOD;

BIOLOGICAL LEGACIES; DISTURBANCE; DIVERSITY; NATURAL DISTURBANCE; REGENERATION; SALVAGE HARVESTING; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION REGENERATION; WINDTHROWS; WOODFIBER;

SALVAGING;

ABUNDANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST SOIL; GROWTH; HARVESTING; REGENERATION; SALVAGING; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SEVERE WEATHER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WINDTHROW; WOODY DEBRIS;

PLANTS; SALVAGE; SAPLINGS; SILVICULTURE; WOOD FIBERS;

CANADA;

EID: 85030758229     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2017.09.061     Document Type: Article

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