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[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378112714004733 by Kathrin Kramer 1/11/14 ScienceDirect] | [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378112714004733 by Kathrin Kramer 1/11/14 ScienceDirect] | ||
Wind disturbance is the main natural driver of forest dynamics in Central and Northern Europe, but little is known regarding the general patterns of tree regeneration following windthrow in this region. On the basis of 89 windthrow gaps, we quantified natural tree regeneration 10 and 20 years after wind disturbance, and identified the factors influencing tree regeneration dynamics, with a special emphasis on the post-storm management practices “salvage logging” and “no intervention”. | Wind disturbance is the main natural driver of forest dynamics in Central and Northern Europe, but little is known regarding the general patterns of tree regeneration following windthrow in this region. On the basis of 89 windthrow gaps, we quantified natural tree regeneration 10 and 20 years after wind disturbance, and identified the factors influencing tree regeneration dynamics, with a special emphasis on the post-storm management practices “salvage logging” and “no intervention”. | ||
=====Applying ecological knowledge to decisions about seed tree retention in selective logging in tropical forests===== | |||
[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378112708002223 by Joberto Veloso de Freitas 20/9/08 ScienceDirect] | |||
In production forests in the moist tropics, trees are selected for felling or retention primarily by species and size. Tree regeneration requirements and forest stand responses to harvesting are often ignored, and consequently, the regeneration of the residual forest is not ensured. We developed and tested an alternative approach to tree selection, where seed trees were retained as a proportion of harvestable trees, with the proportion defined as a function of species’ ecological attributes and local abundance (100 ha), in contrast to the conventional approach which retained 10% of harvestable trees, uniformly across commercial species at the compartmental scale (1000 ha). | |||
