Snags and Down Wood in Missouri Old-Growth and Mature Second-Growth Forests
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Abundance and Size Distribution of Cavity Trees in Second-Growth and Old-Growth Central Hardwood Forests
In central hardwood forests, mean cavity-tree abundance increases with increasing standsize class (seedling/sapling, pole, sawtimber, old-growth). However, within a size class, the number of cavity trees is highly variable among 0.1-ha inventory plots. Plots in young stands are most likely to have no cavity trees, but some plots may have more than 50 cavity trees/ha. Plots in old-growth stands ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Northern Journal of Applied Forestry
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0742-6348,1938-3762
DOI: 10.1093/njaf/14.4.165