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Functional Relationships Between Salal Understory and Forest Overstory

Author or Ministry contact: D.J. Vales
Branch: Research
Subject: Botany
Series: Integrated Wildlife Intensive Forestry Research
Other details: Published October 1986.

Abstract

Abundance of salal (Gaultheria shallon Pursh) and its relationship to forest overstory were studied in immature forest stands on Vancouver Island having some topographical characteristics of deer winter ranges. Plots sampled over a range of stocking levels indicated that salal density was strongly related to single forest stand characteristics but predictive equations differed between plant associations.

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