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Overbrowsing of balsam fir saplings by introduced moose can lead to stand conversion to non-forest. The park measures the browse rates of fir saplings in mature forest stands, which will indicate whether non-browsed advanced regeneration is sufficent to allow stand replacement following disturbance. Browsed and unbrowsed saplings are being enumerated in 1x20 m strip transects, 6 of which are sampled at each of 15 randomnly selected sites in mature forests throughout the 3 ecoregions in GMNP (90 strip transects total). Sampling will occur every 2 years during the months of July to September.

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Understory woody plant diversity and advanced regeneration of balsam fir - Gros Morne - Data dictionary	CSV		https://open.canada.ca/data/dataset/82c2a1e5-dda5-4e31-afc4-dfac2a6f6279/resource/99c580b9-f3de-4c47-b043-fb1be7f3823c/download/grosmorne_np_understory_woody_plants_2008-2017_dictionary.csv
Understory woody plant diversity and advanced regeneration of balsam fir - Gros Morne - Data	CSV		https://open.canada.ca/data/dataset/82c2a1e5-dda5-4e31-afc4-dfac2a6f6279/resource/b8de8f8a-628f-4375-81b7-7a0d16ce4371/download/grosmorne_np_understory_woody_plants_2008-2017_data.csv

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