Juvenile stand responses and potential outcomes of conifer release efforts on Alberta's spruce-aspen mixedwood sites

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 583-597

  Pitt, Douglas G ^a   Mihajlovich, Milo ^b   Proudfoot, Leslie M ^c  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b Incremental Forest Technologies Inc ^*  (Canada)

^c Canadian Forest Products Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal mixedwoods; Conifer release; Mixedwood Growth Model; Trembling aspen; Vegetation management; White spruce

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HERBICIDES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WOOD PRODUCTS;

FOREST REGENERATION; LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT; MIXEDWOOD GROWTH MODEL (MGM);

FORESTRY;

BOREAL FOREST; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GROWTH MODELING; REGENERATION; SILVICULTURE; STAND STRUCTURE; THINNING;

FORESTRY; HERBICIDES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PICEA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; SILVICULTURE; SIMULATION; SOFTWOODS;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA; PICEA GLAUCA; POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 8644254452     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc80583-5     Document Type: Review

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