Incorporating Insect and Wind Disturbances in a Natural Disturbance-Based Management Framework for the Boreal Forest

Incorporating Insect and Wind Disturbances in a Natural Disturbance-Based Management Framework for the Boreal Forest

Natural disturbances are fundamental to forest ecosystem dynamics and have been used for two decades to improve forest management, notably in the boreal forest. Initially based on fire regimes, there is now a need to extend the concept to include other types of disturbances as they can greatly contr...

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Main Authors: Louis De Grandpré, Kaysandra Waldron, Mathieu Bouchard, Sylvie Gauthier, Marilou Beaudet, Jean-Claude Ruel, Christian Hébert, Daniel D. Kneeshaw
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-08-01
Series:Forests
Subjects:
biological legacies
structural legacies
salvage logging
windthrow
spruce budworm
natural disturbance-based forest management
disturbance regime
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/9/8/471

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