Changes in forest structure

Changes in forest structure values along the natural cycle and ...

The aim was to determine changes in forest structure values along the natural cycle and human impacts generated by rural timber, pastoral and silvopastoral ...

Global patterns and climatic controls of forest structural complexity

In forests adapted to frequent fires, complex forest structures are typically spatially separated, resulting in a patchy distribution of single ...

Changes in forest structure since 1860 in ponderosa pine ...

Across the montane zone, ponderosa pine dominated historical (88% and 83% of basal area in the lower and upper montane, respectively) and current forests (80% ...

Changes in forests and woodlands - OEHHA - CA.gov

Similar changes are happening across the globe. Although land-use change and harvesting contribute to their decline, large trees are less able ...

Forest structure drives changes in light heterogeneity during tropical ...

We predict that forest height and stand size increase during early stage of secondary succession, which is followed by an increase in light ...

Forest Structure: A Key to the Ecosystem - Oregon State University

Forest structure is both a product and driver of ecosystem processes and biological diversity. It has become apparent in recent years that changes in forest ...

Post-disturbance reorganization of forest ecosystems in a changing ...

Regime shifts occur when vegetation structure and composition are altered so profoundly that the emerging trajectory leads to nonforest. We ...

Forest Structure - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

The changes in forest structure (e.g., foliage-height distributions) that accompany stand development following large-scale disturbance result in consequent ...

Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and ...

2). This biogeoclimatically diverse region supports a wide range of forest types composed of broadleaf and coniferous species. Dominant species ...

Interpreting the shifts in forest structure, plant community ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the impacts of wildfire severity on plant community (both the canopy trees and herbaceous layer) and alien plant ...

Changes in Forest Structure, Fuels and Potential Fire Behaviour ...

Results: Contemporary Jeffrey pine and mixed conifer forests had more trees, more basal area, smaller trees and a different size structure than the reference.

Seven decades of change in forest structure and composition in ...

The broad ranges of structural and compositional conditions observed across the landscape highlight the importance of having spatially varying desired future ...

Changes in forest structure, species diversity and spatial pattern ...

Our study found hurricane effects on the structural attributes of Piedmont forests to be variable and patchy. Changes in tree species composition, however, ...

Changes in forest structure modify understory and livestock ...

The objective of this study was to determine changes in the understory forage value and livestock occurrence in Nothofagus antarctica forests of Tierra del ...

Changes in forests and woodlands | OEHHA - CA.gov

Other factors that influence forest structure and composition include fire suppression, logging practices and wildfires. Why is this indicator ...

Twentieth-century shifts in forest structure in California: Denser ...

Across California, tree density in forested regions increased by 30% between the two time periods, whereas forest biomass in the same regions declined, as ...

Quantifying changes in forest structural complexity using bi-temporal ...

The experiments carried out in this study showed that the magnitude of changes in the canopy layering structure was observed to be higher in forest stands ...

Forest structure and regeneration responses 15 years after wildfire ...

2016). Shifts in forest composition and tree species distributions in response to wildfire and climate are likely to be most readily observed in ...

Changes in forest structure and composition after fire in tropical ...

... Post-fire 10-year-old secondary forests in tropical montane cloud forest contain 75-93% of plant species found in unburned areas, and old burned areas (10- ...

Edge Influence on Forest Structure and Composition in Fragmented ...

More recently, research on changes at forest edges has revealed that EI can lead to the degra- dation of forest fragments (Gascon et al. 2000; Laurance et al.