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Ecology 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
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Silviculture for old-growth attributes [PDF]
Forest 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.
Jürgen Bauhus +2 more
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Definition criteria determine the success of old-growth mapping
Ecological IndicatorsOld-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
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Ecosphere, 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
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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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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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Estimating the amount of British Columbia’s “big-treed” old growth: Navigating messy indicators
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2023 British Columbia’s (BC) diverse forest ecosystems include highly productive old growth with global importance for carbon storage and biodiversity. Current estimates of the remaining amount of “big-treed” old growth vary 10-fold, creating uncertainty that
Karen Price +3 more
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High richness, new occurrences, and threatened species in a savanna grassland remnant in the largest Brazilian metropolis [PDF]
Check 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
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Ecosphere, 2022 The long‐term outcome from accelerated forest restoration using resource objective wildfire in combination with fuel management on fire‐excluded landscapes is not well studied.
Jesse D. Young +2 more
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Age, Culture, Humanities, 2022 “Old Trees Are Our Parents”: Old Growth, New Kin, Forest Time We are aged by culture, as Margaret Gullette has perfectly put it, her emphasis placed on the negative associations sutured to being old in capitalist societies.
KATHLEEN WOODWARD
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