Disturbance legacies increase the resilience of forest ecosystem structure, composition, and functioning

Ecological Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2063-2077

  Seidl, Rupert ^a   Rammer, Werner ^a   Spies, Thomas A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological legacy; Canopy structural diversity; Ecosystem carbon storage; Fire frequency; H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest; iLand model; Natural disturbance; Remnant live trees; Species succession; Tree species diversity

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; RECOLONIZATION;

OREGON; UNITED STATES;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; OREGON; PROCEDURES; TIME FACTOR;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OREGON; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84919382008     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-0255.1     Document Type: Article

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