Evaluating the ecological impacts of salvage logging: Can natural and anthropogenic disturbances promote coexistence?

Ecology

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1566-1582

  Royo, Alejandro A ^a   Peterson, Chris J ^b   Stanovick, John S ^a   Carson, Walter P ^c  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance severity; Diversity; Salvage; Tree regeneration; Wind disturbance

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COEXISTENCE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS TREE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; REGENERATION; SALVAGING; SCARIFICATION; SEEDLING; SHADE TOLERANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION COVER; WINDTHROW;

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; ACER RUBRUM; FAGUS GRANDIFOLIA; PRUNUS PENSYLVANICA; PRUNUS SEROTINA;

CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; FORESTRY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTRY; FORESTS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

EID: 84971505178     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/15-1093.1     Document Type: Article

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