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Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2022 The importance of understory vegetation cannot be denied as an integral component of forest ecosystems, but there is a dearth of studies to explore the effects of environmental variables and canopy species on its diversity and composition.
Fayaz Ali, Nasrullah Khan
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Despite their controversial nature, biodiversity offsets are often used as a regulatory tool to counterbalance the impacts of land clearing on biodiversity. Offsets usually aim to achieve no net loss (NNL) of biodiversity through protection and/or restoration of habitat.
Laure‐Elise Ruoso +3 more
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Three Decades of Overstory and Species Change in a Mixed Mesophytic Forest in Eastern Kentucky
, 2005 The objectives of this study were to document changes, between 1971 and 1999, in overstory vegetation structure and composition at Lilley Cornett Woods (LCW), an old-growth mixed mesophytic forest in eastern Kentucky. Similar to other old-growth forests,
Galbraith, Shannon L. +1 more
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Forest Ecology and Management, 2012 Abstract The restoration of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) ecosystem types ranging from xeric uplands to hydric flatwoods is the goal of significant management efforts in the southeastern United States. Overstory species composition across ecosystem types varies from pure longleaf to mixed species stands, with slash pine (Pinus elliottii ...
Ajay Sharma +3 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Fires are expanding in frequency and intensity worldwide due to climate change and land‐use transformations. At the same time, fire often plays a regenerative role in ecosystems. Traditional and cultural practices incorporate fire use for landscape management and landscape renewal. In this complex matrix of fire ecologies, digital technologies
Jennifer Gabrys +2 more
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Trophic interactions and feedbacks maintain intact and degraded states of Hawaiian tropical forests
Ecosphere, 2022 Feedbacks within ecosystems can lead to internal reinforcement of the current state providing ecosystem resilience. Often, multiple biotic interactions across trophic levels play a role in such feedbacks, yet these are generally studied independently ...
Stephanie Yelenik +2 more
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Forest plantations play an increasingly important role in climate change mitigation through carbon sequestration, yet management strategies that enhance long‐term ecosystem carbon storage remain insufficiently understood. We investigated the effects of more than a decade of close‐to‐nature management on community structure and ecosystem carbon storage ...
Yuwen Luo, Yunliang Ni, Zongzheng Chai
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Large‐scale characterization of horizontal forest structure from remote sensing optical images
Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.Sub‐meter resolution remote sensing data and tree crown segmentation techniques hold promise in offering detailed information that can support the characterization of forest structure from a horizontal perspective, offering new insights in the tree crown structure at scale.
Xin Xu +12 more
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Influence of fire, logging, and overstory composition on understory abundance, diversity, and composition in boreal forests, Ontario Canada [PDF]
, 2006 Study area : Northwestern OntarioUnderstory vegetation is the most diverse and least understood component of North American boreal forests and are important as they influence overstory succession and nutrient cycling. The objectives of this thesis were
Hart, Stephen A.
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, 2016 Rank correlations between changes in community-weighted trait mean values and changes in overstory structure and composition between the 1950 and 2000 time ...
David A. Rogers (2916266) +3 more
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