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Spatial Patterns in Forest Understories: Relationships to Overstory Thinning Intensity and Understory Plant Diversity

, 2009
Amount, spatial distribution, and species composition of understory plant communities have been shown to respond to changes in overstory structure. While response of the amount and composition of understory vegetation to thinning has been investigated in
Satterthwaite, Paul, Puettmann, Klaus J., Ganio, Lisa M.   +2 more
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Data from: Moderate land use changes plant functional composition without loss of functional diversity in India's Western Ghats. Ecological Applications. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/15-0068.1

, 2015
Data on plot characteristics, plant community composition (overstory, understory and seedlings) and functional traits from study sites in the Western Ghats region of India.
Mandle, Lisa, Ticktin, Tamara
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Composition, structural diversity, and regeneration patterns of tree species in the Kihamba agroforestry system

Trees, Forests and People
Agroforestry systems in mountainous landscapes provide essential ecosystem services yet changes in overstory tree composition may threaten their structural integrity and long-term resilience.
Leticia Kalumbilo, Ellen Desie, Oforo Didas Kimaro, Dries Menten, Gileard Minja, Camille Van Eupen, Ben Aernouts, Koen Thijs, Bart Muys, Didas Nahum Kimaro, Karen Vancampenhout   +10 more
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Overstory dynamics as an indicator of ecosystem services from the understory vegetation in coniferous forests in Sweden [PDF]

, 2017
Understory vegetation is a wide and diverse part of the forest environment, which provides a lot of information about the forest, its condition and ecosystem services.
Boczniewicz, Daniel
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Impact of river management history on the community structure, species composition and nutrient status in the Rhine alluvial hardwood forest [PDF]

, 1998
The present-day Rhine alluvial hardwood forest (Querco-Ulmetum minoris, Issler 24) in the upper Rhine valley (France/Germany) is comprised of three vegetation units, one still flooded by calm waters (F) and the two others unflooded, one for 30 years ...
Trémolières, Michèle, Schnitzler, Annik, Sanchez-Pérez, José-Miguel, Schmitt, Diane   +3 more
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Effects of thinning on forest structure and composition in the Wungong catchment, Western Australia

, 2012
The focus of jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata Donn ex. Smith) forest management in past decades has been changing in response to forest management practices of the day, interests and needs of the forest users and more recently a changing climate.
Panta, Sita
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A Century of Overabundant Ungulates in Yellowstone's Lamar Valley: First Elk and Now Bison. [PDF]

Environ Manage
Beschta RL, Ripple WJ, Kauffman JB.
europepmc   +1 more source

Effects of overstory tree species and seed trap design on seed rain in a tropical rainforest

, 2018
Tropical rainforests maintain a high diversity of plant species, but the community assembly mechanisms by which this occurs are unclear. We hypothesized that individual overstory tree species could filter seed rain differentially, owing to differences in
Kirk, Bridgette
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The arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities associated with Taxus brevifolia (western yew) are sensitive to soil pH and neighborhood forest composition. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Snyder E, Simard SW, Guichon S.
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Patterns and mechanisms of epiphytic macrolichen and abundance, diversity and composition in boreal forest

, 2014
Epiphytes are important components of the forest ecosystem, but the mechanisms that control epiphyte diversity are not clear. Epiphytes are sensitive to disturbance, but their responses to stand-replacing fire are poorly understood.
Bartels, Samuel Fiifi
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