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Palustrine forested wetland vegetation communities change across an elevation gradient, Washington State, USA [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Background Forested wetlands support distinct vegetation and hydrology relative to upland forests and shrub-dominated or open water wetlands. Although forested wetland plant communities comprise unique habitats, these ecosystems’ community structure is ...
Nate Hough-Snee
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Fire, 2022 Forest fires spread via production and combustion of pyrolysis gases in the understory. The goal of the present paper is to understand the spatial location, distribution, and fraction (relative to the overstory) of understory plants, in this case ...
Molly M. Herzog +11 more
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Contributions of understory and/or overstory vegetations to soil microbial PLFA and nematode diversities in Eucalyptus monocultures. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Ecological interactions between aboveground and belowground biodiversity have received many attentions in the recent decades. Although soil biodiversity declined with the decrease of plant diversity, many previous studies found plant species identities ...
Jie Zhao +5 more
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Remote Sensing, 2020 Vegetation cover estimation for overstory and understory layers provides valuable information for modeling forest carbon and water cycles and refining forest ecosystem function assessment.
Linyuan Li +6 more
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Long-Term Suppression of Hardwood Regeneration by Chinese Privet (Ligustrum sinense)
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022 Native hardwood regeneration in the southeast United States is hindered by repeat disturbance events and the presence of invasive species. Our study aimed to determine the ability of native species in an unmanaged urban forest fragment to persist ...
Taylor N. Turner +2 more
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Soil microbiomes of hardwood‐ versus pine‐dominated stands: Linkage with overstory species
Ecosphere, 2023 Biodiversity in forest ecosystems is paradoxical. Whereas their most apparent component—the woody overstory—is the least diverse with respect to numbers of species, the least apparent component is the biotic community of highest diversity—the soil ...
Frank S. Gilliam +5 more
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The influencing factors for distribution patterns of resident and migrant bird species richness along elevational gradients [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 The latitudinal and elevational patterns of species richness of resident and migrant birds have been of interest to researchers over the past few decades, and various hypotheses have been proposed to explain the factors that may affect these patterns ...
Jin-Yong Kim +3 more
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Data in Brief, 2018 Growing demand for non-timber forest ecosystem services has resulted in increased use of partial harvesting in boreal forests. Since the 1990s, multiple studies have yielded short-term responses to partial harvesting.
Rongzhou Man, Hua Yang, John W. Schnare
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Wildfire affects boreal forest resilience through post-fire recruitment in Northeastern China
Ecological Indicators, 2022 Climate change has increased the severity, frequency, and impact of fire disturbance on boreal forests worldwide. Unusual fire events can trigger a shift from needle-leaf dominated forests to broad-leaf dominated forests, altering the original succession
Bo Liu +5 more
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Forests, shrubs, and terrain: top‐down and bottom‐up controls on forest structure
Ecosphere, 2018 Overstory forest structure responds to terrain‐related abiotic factors and to biotic interactions among overstory and understory plants. Unlike species abundance, tree height, biomass, and leaf area in many regions have been poorly quantified in relation
Paul V. Bolstad +2 more
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