Forest structure, habitat and carbon benefits from thinning floodplain forests: Managing early stand density makes a difference

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 259, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 286-293

  Horner, Gillis J ^a   Baker, Patrick J ^a   Mac Nally, Ralph ^a   Cunningham, Shaun C ^a   Thomson, James R ^a   Hamilton, Fiona ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Drying climate; Eucalyptus camaldulensis; Mortality; Tree hollows; Water extraction

Indexed keywords

CARBON STOCKS; CARBON STORAGE; DATA SETS; EUCALYPTUS CAMALDULENSIS; FLOODPLAIN FOREST; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST STRUCTURE; HABITAT QUALITY; INTERMEDIATE LEVEL; MORTALITY; PRE-COMMERCIAL THINNING; STAND DENSITIES; STEM DIAMETER; WATER EXTRACTION; WATER FLOWS;

ANIMALS; BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); BIODIVERSITY; DEWATERING; ECOSYSTEMS; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; TRANSPIRATION;

REFORESTATION;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; EVERGREEN TREE; FLOODPLAIN; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT QUALITY; MORTALITY; REGENERATION; STAND STRUCTURE; THINNING;

BEARINGS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATES; DRAINAGE; DRYING; ECOSYSTEMS; EUCALYPTUS ROSTRATA; MORTALITY; REFORESTATION; TRANSPIRATION;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS CAMALDULENSIS; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 72649093006     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.10.015     Document Type: Article

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