Impact of Canopy Openness on Forest Regeneration and Forest Soil Nutrients [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionCanopy structure plays a critical role in regulating forest regeneration and soil nutrient dynamics, yet its specific effects remain insufficiently understood in the subtropical forests of Nepal.
Pratik Ojha, Radha Kandel
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Impact of Canopy Openness on Spider Communities: Implications for Conservation Management of Formerly Coppiced Oak Forests. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Traditional woodland management created a mosaic of differently aged patches providing favorable conditions for a variety of arthropods. After abandonment of historical ownership patterns and traditional management and the deliberate transformation to ...
Ondřej Košulič +2 more
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Seasonal Variation of the Effects of Phylogenetic Relatedness and Functional Similarity Among Heterospecific Neighbors and Habitat on Seedling Survival in a Subtropical Forest in Gaoligong Mountains, Southwest China [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionUnderstanding the mechanisms of species coexistence is a long‐standing goal in community ecology. The performance of woody seedlings across different ecological niches has been proposed as a key mechanism in community assembly.
Liping Wang +3 more
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Effects of experimental canopy openness on wood-inhabiting fungal fruiting diversity across succession [PDF]
Scientific ReportsWhile the succession of terrestrial plant communities is well studied, less is known about succession on dead wood, especially how it is affected by environmental factors.
Jasper Schreiber +8 more
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Functional Trait Variation and Reverse Phenology in the Tropical Dry Forest Species Bonellia nervosa [PDF]
PlantsBonellia nervosa is an understory tree with reverse phenology in tropical dry forests (TDFs), where seasonal water and temperature stress typically shape plant phenology and trait expression. This species is heliophytic and phreatophytic, relying on high
Ciara Duff +2 more
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Interactions Between Enrichment Planted Seedlings and Naturally Occurring Trees in Selectively Logged Lowland Dipterocarp Forest [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionOld‐growth forests in Southeast Asia are dominated by trees of the Dipterocarpaceae family which are targeted by selective logging. Their traits (supra‐annual mast fruiting, limited dispersal, and recalcitrant seeds that form no seed bank) mean they can ...
Charles J. Marsh +10 more
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Growth and survival over ten years of Brazil-nut trees planted in three anthropogenic habitats in northern Amazonia [PDF]
Acta Amazonica, 2021 We examined the growth and survival of Brazil-nut trees, Bertholletia excelsa (Lecythidaceae) under different environmental conditions and levels of canopy openness within experimental plantations in the Trombetas River valley, in northern Brazil.
Ricardo SCOLES, Rogério GRIBEL
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Canopy arthropod responses to repeated canopy opening in a wet tropical forest
Ecosphere, 2022 AbstractWith predictions of increased frequency of intense hurricanes, it is increasingly crucial to understand how biotic and abiotic components of forests will be affected. This study describes canopy arthropod responses to repeated experimental and natural canopy opening at the Luquillo Experimental Forest Long‐term Ecological Research Site (LTER ...
Manoj Pandey, Timothy D. Schowalter
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Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2022 In tropical semi-deciduous forests, where 20-50 % of canopy trees shed their leaves in the dry season, species with varying degrees of leaf deciduousness share the same space and resources.
Tiago Egydio Barreto +5 more
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Use of the canopy-scope for assessing canopy openness in plantation forests [PDF]
Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research, 2005 The canopy-scope was recently introduced as a cheap, robust, portable and easy to use instrument for assessing canopy openness in forests. In this study, the method was tested in predominantly coniferous plantation forests, which were different in species and structure to the forests where the instrument was originally tested.
Hale, SE, Brown, N
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