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Topographic Factors Drive Short-Term Understory Revegetation in Burned Areas

Fire, 2022
Fire is a disturbance factor in forest ecosystems which has an important influence on vegetation succession. In order to reveal the natural recovery characteristics of the understory vegetation and its response to topographic factors (elevation, slope ...
Zhixue He, Lei Wang, Jun Luo, Bin Zhang, Qingchun Deng, Hui Liu   +5 more
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Impact of understory vegetation on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamic in aerially seeded Pinus massoniana plantations. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
Understory vegetation plays a vital role in regulating soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) characteristics due to differences in plant functional traits. Different understory vegetation types have been reported following aerial seeding. While aerial seeding
Ping Pan, Fang Zhao, Jinkui Ning, Ling Zhang, Xunzhi Ouyang, Hao Zang   +5 more
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Effects of overstory and understory vegetation on the understory light environment in mixed boreal forests [PDF]

Journal of Vegetation Science, 1998
Abstract. The percentage of above‐canopy Photosynthetic Photon Flux Density (%PPFD) was measured at 0, 50 and 100 cm above the forest floor and above the main understory vegetation in stands of (1) pure Betula papyrifera (White birch), (2) pure Populus tremuloides (Trembling aspen), (3) mixed broad‐leaf‐conifer, (4) shade‐tolerant conifer and (5) pure
Messier, Christian, Parent, Sylvain, Bergeron, Yves, Engelmark, O., Harvey, B., Morin, H., Sirois, L.   +6 more
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Understory vegetation plays the key role in sustaining soil microbial biomass and extracellular enzyme activities [PDF]

Biogeosciences, 2018
While we know that understory vegetation affects the soil microbial biomass and extracellular enzyme activities in subtropical Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) forests, we are less certain about the degree of its influence.
Y. Yang, Y. Yang, Y. Yang, X. Zhang, X. Zhang, C. Zhang, H. Wang, H. Wang, X. Fu, X. Fu, F. Chen, S. Wan, X. Sun, X. Sun, X. Wen, X. Wen, J. Wang   +16 more
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Effect of lime application on soil respiration is modulated by understory vegetation in subtropical Eucalyptus L’Hér. plantations

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2023
ObjectiveLime application and understory plant clearance are two common forest management methods employed to increase forest productivity in subtropical regions. However, the effect of these two management methods, or their combined application, on soil
Juan Liu, Rui Li, Jianhong Xu, Shenglei Fu, Songze Wan   +4 more
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A Method for Quantifying Understory Leaf Area Index in a Temperate Forest through Combining Small Footprint Full-Waveform and Point Cloud LiDAR Data

Remote Sensing, 2021
Understory vegetation plays an important role in the structure and function of forest ecosystems. Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) can provide understory information in the form of either point cloud or full-waveform data.
Jinling Song, Xiao Zhu, Jianbo Qi, Yong Pang, Lei Yang, Lihong Yu   +5 more
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Understory and Soil Macrofauna Diversity under the Three Young Native Species and Acacia crassicarpa in a Drained Peatland of Pelalawan-Riau, Indonesia [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2021
Most studies mentioned that Acacia crassicarpa belongs to invasive species that could threat the native biodiversity. To respond that issue, we conducted a study that covers the understory and soil macrofauna diversity of three native tree species ...
Pribadi Avry, Junaedi Ahmad
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Stable oxygen isotope and flux partitioning demonstrates understory of an oak savanna contributes up to half of ecosystem carbon and water exchange

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2014
Semi-arid ecosystems contribute about 40% to global net primary production (GPP) even though water is a major factor limiting carbon uptake. Evapotranspiration (ET) accounts for up to 95% of the water loss and in addition, vegetation can also mitigate ...
Maren eDubbert, Arndt ePiayda, Matthias eCuntz, Alexandra C. Correia, Filipe eCosta e Silva, Joao S. Pereira, Christiane eWerner   +6 more
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Modelling vegetation understory cover using LiDAR metrics

PLOS ONE, 2019
Abstract Forest understory vegetation is an important feature of wildlife habitat among other things. Predicting and mapping understory is a critical need for forest management and conservation planning, but it has proved difficult. LiDAR has the potential to generate remotely sensed forest understory structure data, yet this potential ...
Venier, Lisa A., Swystun, Tom, Mazerolle, Marc J., Kreutzweiser, David P., Wainio-Keizer, Kerrie L., McIlwrick, Ken A., Woods, Murray E., Wang, Xianli   +7 more
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Effects of Disturbance on Understory Vegetation across Slovenian Forest Ecosystems [PDF]

Forests, 2019
The herbaceous understory represents a key component of forest biodiversity across temperate forests of Europe. Here, we quantified changes in the diversity and composition of the forest understory layer in representative Slovenian forest ecosystems between 2004/05 and 2014/15.
Lado Kutnar, Thomas A. Nagel, Janez Kermavnar   +2 more
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