Do natural disturbances or the forestry practices that follow them convert forests to early-successional communities?

Ecological Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 442-458

  Brewer, J Stephen ^a   Bertz, Christine A ^a   Cannon, Jeffery B ^a   Chesser, Jason D ^a   Maynard, Erynn E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotic homogenization; Canopy gap; Forest understory; Ground cover vegetation; Habitat specialist; Mississippi, USA; Ruderal; Salvage logging; Soil disturbance; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CANOPY GAP; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FLOWERING; FORESTRY PRACTICE; GROUND COVER; HOMOGENEITY; LOGGING (TIMBER); PLANT COMMUNITY; RUDERAL; SPECIALIST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STORM DAMAGE; SUCCESSION; TORNADO; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WOODLAND;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORESTRY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; TORNADO; TREE; UNITED STATES;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTRY; MISSISSIPPI; TIME FACTORS; TORNADOES; TREES;

MISSISSIPPI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859526749     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0386.1     Document Type: Article

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