Marginal effect of forest road on alder trees (case study: Darab Kola forest, Mazandaran Province, Iran)

Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1766-1771

  Hosseini, Seyed Ataollah ^a   Jalilvand, Hamid ^a  

^a Faculty of Natural Resources   (Iran)

Author keywords

Alder; Darab Kola (Mazandaran, Iran); Forest road; Growth; Marginal effect

Indexed keywords

ALNUS;

EID: 34247191227     PISSN: 10288880     EISSN: 18125735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2007.1766.1771     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Angold, P.G., 1997. The impact of a road adjacent heath and vegetation: Effect on plant species composition. J. Applied Ecol., 34: 409-417.
2. Anonymous, 2003. Darabkola Forest Management. Organization of Forest and Range and Watershed Management, Islamic Republic of Iran, pp: 350.
3. Avery, T.E. and H.E. Burkhart, 2002. Forest Measurements. 5th Edn., McGraw Hill, New York, pp: 456.
4. Brais, S. and C. Camire, 1998. Soil compaction induced by careful logging in the clay belt region of northeastern Quebec (Canada). Can. J. Soil Sci., 78: 197-206.
5. Chen, J., J.F. Franklin and T.A. Spics, 1995. Growing season micro climatic gradients from clear cut edges in to old growth Douglas fir forest. Ecol. Applc., 5: 74-86.
6. Euskrichen, E.S., J. Chen and R. Bi, 2001. Effects of edges on plant communities in managed landscape in northern Wisconsin. Forest Ecol. Manage., 148: 93-109.
7. Forman, R.T.T. and L.E. Alexander, 1998. Roads and their major ecological effects. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Systematic, 29: 207-231.
8. Forman, R.T.T., 2000. Estimate of the area affected ecologically by the road system in the United States. Conserv. Biol., 14: 31-35.
9. Gilbert, B. and M.G. Lechowicz, 2005. Invisibility and abiotic gradients: The positive correlation between native and exotic plant diversity. Ecology, 86: 1848-1855.
10. Godefroid, S. and N. Koedam, 2004. The impact of forest paths upon adjacent vegetation: Effects of the path surfacing material on the species composition and soil compaction. Biology. Conserv., 119: 405-419.
11. Gysel, W.L., 1951. Borders and opening of beech-maple wood lands in southern Michigan. J. For., 49: 13-19.
12. Heninger, R., W. Scott, A. Dokowski, R. Miller, H. Anderson and S. Duke, 2002. Soil disturbance and 10-year growth response to coast fir on nontilled skid terials in the Oregon cascades. Can. J. For. Res., 32: 233-246.
13. Hosseini, S.A., 2003. Forest road network planning using GIS. Ph.D Thesis, Tarbiat Modarres University, pp: 120 (In Persian).
14. Hruza, P., 2003. Optimization of forest road network under principles of functionally integrated forest management. J. For. Sci., 49: 439-443.
15. Kollka, R.K. and M.F. Smidt, 2004. Effects of forest road amelioration techniques on soil bulk density surface runoff sediment transport soil moisture and seedling growth. For. Ecol. Manage., 202: 313-323.
16. Kozlowski, T.T., 1999. Soil compaction and growth of woody plants. Scandinavian J. For. Res., 14: 596-619.
17. Marvi Mohajer, M.R., 2005. Silviculture. University of Tehran, No: 2709, pp: 387 (In Persian).
18. McDonald, T., E. Carter, S. Taylor and J. Torbert, 1998. Relationship Between Site Disturbance and Forest Harvesting Equipment Traffic. In: Whiffen, H.J-H., W.C. (Eds.), Proceeding of the Second Southern Forestry GIS Conference; 1998 October 28-29; Athens, G.A., 89-92.
19. Miller, J.R., L.A. Joyce, R.L. Knight and R.M. King, 1996. Forest road and landscape structure in the southern rocky mountain. Landscape Ecol., 1: 115-127.
20. Musa, M.K.A. and A.M. Mohammad, 2000. Alignment and locating forest road network by best path modeling method. ITC, J., 2: 184-190.
21. Negishi, J.N., S. Noguchi, R.C. Sidle and N. Abdul Rahim, 2004. Some observations on logging road recovery: Implications to road rehabilitations. Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Landscape Level Rehabilitation of Degraded Tropical Forests. Forestry and Forest Product Research Institute, Tsukuba pp: 29-36.
22. Negishi, J.N., R.C. Sidle, S. Noguchi, N. Abdul Rahim and R. Stanforth 2006. Ecological roles of roadside fern (Dicranopteris curranii) on logging road recovery in Peninsular Malaysia: Preliminary results. For. Ecol. Manage., 224: 176-186.
23. Pickett, S.T.A. and P.S. White, 1985. The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and Patch Dynamics of Forest Island. In: Bargess, P.L. and D.M. Sharp (Eds.), Forest Island Dynamics in a Man Dominated Landscape, Springer-Verlag. New York, pp: 67-95.
24. Punchard, A. and P.B. Alaback, 2006. Edge type defines alien plant species invasions along Pinus contorta burned, highway and clear cut forest edges. For. Ecol. Manage., 223: 327-335.
25. Rab, M.A., 2004. Recovery of soil physical properties from compaction and soil profile disturbance caused by logging of native forest in Victorian Central Highlands, Australia. For. Ecol. Manage., 191: 329-340.
26. Reed, R.A. and J. Johanson Barnard and W.L. Baker, 1996. Contribution of roads to forest fragmentation in the Rocky Mountain. Conerv. Biol., 10: 1098-1106.
27. Sarikhani, N., 2002. Forest network planning booklet. Natural Resources Faculty, Tehran University, pp: 50 (In Persian).
28. Saunders, S.C., R. Mo. Mislivets, J. Chen and D.T. Clel, 2002. Biol. Coserv., 103: 209-225.
29. Stohlgren, T. and D.T. Barnett, 2003. The rich get richer: Patterns of plant invasions in the United States. Fron. Ecol. Environ., 1: 11-14.
30. Watkinz, R.Z., J. Chen, J. Pickens and K.D. Brosofeski, 2003. Effects of forest roads on under story plants in a managed hardwood landscape. Conserv. Biol., 17: 411-419.