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Old-growth Policy [PDF]

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2007
Most federal legislation and policies (e.g., the Wilderness Act, Endangered Species Act, National Forest Management Act) fail to speak directly to the need for old-growth protection, recruitment, and restoration on federal lands.
Diane Vosick   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Silviculture for old-growth attributes [PDF]

open access: yesForest Ecology and Management, 2009
Silviculture to maintain old-growth forest attributes appears to be an oxymoron since the late developmental phases of forest dynamics, described by the term old-growth, represent forests that have not experienced human intervention or timber removal for a long time.
Christian Messier   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Definition criteria determine the success of old-growth mapping

open access: yesEcological Indicators
Old-growth forests have been widely studied for decades. The extreme diversity of old forest characteristics has inspired an equally diverse set of old-growth definitions, and makes mapping old-growth difficult across large areas and different forest ...
Jamis M. Bruening   +4 more
doaj   +3 more sources

An indicator species highlights continuous deadwood supply is a key ecological attribute of boreal old‐growth forests

open access: yesEcosphere, 2021
Old‐growth forests are optimal habitats for many woodpeckers, which are often themselves excellent indicators of deadwood‐associated biodiversity. Old‐growth forests are, however, heterogeneous ecosystems in terms of structure, composition, and deadwood ...
Maxence Martin   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

High richness, new occurrences, and threatened species in a savanna grassland remnant in the largest Brazilian metropolis [PDF]

open access: yesCheck List, 2021
Parque Estadual do Juquery is the largest protected remnant of savanna grassland in the metropolitan region of São Paulo (MRSP). We conducted a floristic inventory and created a photographic record of the angiosperm flora of the savanna ...
Victor Camargo Keller   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Quantifying Understory Complexity in Unmanaged Forests Using TLS and Identifying Some of Its Major Drivers

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2021
The structural complexity of the understory layer of forests or shrub layer vegetation in open shrublands affects many ecosystem functions and services provided by these ecosystems.
Dominik Seidel   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Key drivers affecting the spatial heterogeneity of the regeneration process in old-growth beech forests in southeastern Europe

open access: yesFrontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2023
Understanding the processes occurring in old-growth forests and identifying their key aspects can significantly enrich modern forestry practices with innovative ideas and concepts.
Branko Kanjevac   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Propensities of Old Growth, Mature and Regrowth Wet Eucalypt Forest, and Eucalyptus nitens Plantation, to Burn During Wildfire and Suffer Fire-Induced Crown Death

open access: yesFire, 2020
There are conflicting conclusions on how the flammability of wet eucalypt forests changes in the time after disturbances such as logging or wildfire.
Suyanti Winoto-Lewin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Not the same old(‐growth) forests [PDF]

open access: yesNew Phytologist, 2019
This article is a Commentary on Both et al., 221: 1853–1865.
Marcos Longo, Michael Keller
openaire   +4 more sources

Historical Paths and the Growth of Baghdad Old Center

open access: yesJournal of Engineering, 2023
Urban growth of cities is connected with three related problems, the first one, is the deterioration of the center, which is a mark for historical origin. The second is the emergence of city edge, which contradicts by the center.
Sana Sati Abbas   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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