Titre :
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Structure, process, and diversity in successional forests of coastal British Columbia
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Auteurs :
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J. Trofymow ;
Workshop on "Structure, process, and diversity in successional forests of coastal British Columbia", Victoria, CAN, 17-19 February 1998 (1998; CAN) ;
K. Mac
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Type de document :
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congrès/colloque
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Année de publication :
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1998
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Format :
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138 p.
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Langues:
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= Anglais
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Catégories :
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Protection de la nature ou de l'environnement
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Mots-clés:
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COLOMBIE BRITANNIQUE
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CANADA
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FORET
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DYNAMIQUE DE VEGETATION
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SUCCESSION VEGETALE
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BIODIVERSITE
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ECOSYSTEME
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STRUCTURE DU PEUPLEMENT
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CHABLIS
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CYCLE BIOGEOCHIMIQUE
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ECLAIRCIE
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REGENERATION NATURELLE
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FAUNE
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FLORE
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FLORE DU SOL
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MICROFAUNE
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INSECTE
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AMENAGEMENT FORESTIER
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ECOLOGIE FORESTIERE
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FORET VIERGE
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Résumé :
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Forty-one papers are presented from this conference on the successional forests (secondary coastal temperate rain forests and subalpine forests) of coastal British Columbia, which was jointly sponsored by the Canadian Forest Service and the BC Ministry of Forests. The main impetus for the workshop was to share information from research and operational trials on the differences between old-growth forests and the (largely anthropogenic) second-growth forests of the region. Some of the early research plots have now been monitored for more than 65 yr. Almost half of the papers presented are from the Coastal Forest Chronosequence (CFC) research project which was initiated by the Pacific and Yukon Region of the Canadian Forest Service, to study the changes caused by converting coastal old-growth to second-growth forests in the Coastal Western Hemlock (CWH) zone of southern Vancouver Island. Other papers are from studies in other successional stands elsewhere in British Columbia. Topics covered in the 34 oral presentations, 23 posters and 4 keynote addresses included changes in stand structure and composition, site carbon and nutrient balance and species diversity - focusing especially on those species with low dispersal capabilities. The papers (or extended abstracts) are arranged in 4 sections: Introduction - 3 papers; Stand and ecosystem structure studies - 7 papers; Ecosystem process studies - 13 papers; and Biodiversity studies - 17 papers.
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Source :
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Northwest science, vol. 72, n°2 sp.
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