Old-growth and secondary Araucaria Forest characterization
Trees, Forests and People, 2022 The Araucaria Forest is one of the most threatened ecosystems in Brazil due to selective logging and deforestation, mainly during the 20th century. The great majority of remnants are secondary forests with less than 50 ha, i.e., old-growth fragments are ...
Douglas Rufino Vaz +4 more
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An index for tracking old-growth value in disturbance-prone forest landscapes
Ecological Indicators, 2021 Forests in their later stages of development attain attributes that support biodiversity and provide a variety of ecological benefits (e.g. clean water and carbon storage).
Luizmar de Assis Barros, Ché Elkin
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Carbon stock increases up to old growth forest along a secondary succession in Mediterranean island ecosystems. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 The occurrence of old-growth forests is quite limited in Mediterranean islands, which have been subject to particularly pronounced human impacts. Little is known about the carbon stocks of such peculiar ecosystems compared with different stages of ...
Emilio Badalamenti +8 more
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Determination of Structural Characteristics of Old-Growth Forest in Ukraine Using Spaceborne LiDAR
Remote Sensing, 2021 A forest’s structure changes as it progresses through developmental stages from establishment to old-growth forest. Therefore, the vertical structure of old-growth forests will differ from that of younger, managed forests.
Ben Spracklen, Dominick V. Spracklen
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Effects of continuous cover management on bird communities in a beech dominated forest region of Slovenia [PDF]
Scientific ReportsForest management can have a negative impact on the populations of some forest species. One solution has been to use management that is better at mimicking natural processes.
Małgorzata Bujoczek +2 more
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Soil microbial community responses to active and passive restoration of selectively logged Bornean tropical forest [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyTropical rainforests support critical biogeochemical cycles regulated by complex plant-soil microbial interactions but are threatened by global change.
Samuel J. B. Robinson +8 more
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Old-growth forest carbon sinks overestimated [PDF]
Nature, 2021 Luyssaert et al.1 reported that unmanaged, old-growth forests continue to sequester atmospheric carbon (C) at a rate of 2.4 ± 0.8 Mg C ha–1 yr–1 for stand ages exceeding 200 years. This claim was based on an analysis of net ecosystem productivity (NEP) and other C flux data from temperate or boreal forest plots compiled from published studies and ...
Per Gundersen +5 more
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Forest conservation through protection of old growth: the case of Nova Scotia
The Forestry Chronicle, 2023 Old-growth forests are both rare and special ecosystems across most of the world. Policies to protect and possibly enhance and increase them are plentiful and diverse across nations and sub-national jurisdictions.
Peter N. Duinker +5 more
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Classifying, inventorying, and mapping mature and old-growth forests in the United States
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2023 Because of its importance to both carbon storage and biodiversity, old forest has regained currency as a focus of forest management and policy. However, absence of a systematic approach to classifying stages of forest development across all forest types ...
Kevin Barnett +2 more
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022 Old growth is a critical growth stage in many forest types globally. It has many key ecological roles including biodiversity conservation, carbon storage and the provision of services such as water production.
David Lindenmayer, Elle Bowd
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