Natural disturbance and structure in two primary boreal forests of Western Newfoundland

It was long assumed that small-scale gap disturbance did not figure predominantly in boreal forests. Attention has focused, instead, on the role of stand-replacing fire and insect outbreaks in structuring the boreal forest landscape. Recent work, however, beginning principally in Scandinavian boreal...

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Main Author: McCarthy, John William Thomas
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/15987