Edges, exotics and deer: the seed bank of a suburban secondary successional temperate deciduous forest

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 571-584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa B. Beauchamp ◽  
Nureen Ghuznavi ◽  
Stephanie M. Koontz ◽  
Roland P. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Seed Bank ◽  
Deciduous Forest ◽  
Temperate Deciduous Forest ◽  
Temperate Deciduous

Soil seed bank composition and diversity in a managed temperate deciduous forest

2004 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 2485-2509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillaume Decocq ◽  
Bertille Valentin ◽  
Benoit Toussaint ◽  
Frédéric Hendoux ◽  
Robert Saguez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Seed Bank ◽  
Deciduous Forest ◽  
Soil Seed Bank ◽  
Temperate Deciduous Forest ◽  
Temperate Deciduous

scholarly journals The seed bank in an old-growth, temperate deciduous forest

2000 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Leckie ◽  
Mark Vellend ◽  
Graham Bell ◽  
Marcia J. Waterway ◽  
Martin J. Lechowicz
Keyword(s):  
Seed Bank ◽  
Deciduous Forest ◽  
Temperate Deciduous Forest ◽  
Old Growth ◽  
Temperate Deciduous

scholarly journals The seed bank in an old-growth, temperate deciduous forest

2000 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Leckie ◽  
Mark Vellend ◽  
Graham Bell ◽  
Marcia J Waterway ◽  
Martin J Lechowicz
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Seed Bank ◽  
Deciduous Forest ◽  
Minor Component ◽  
Primary Forest ◽  
Species Variation ◽  
Temperate Deciduous Forest ◽  
Old Growth ◽  
Old Growth Forest ◽  
Temperate Deciduous

We assessed the size and composition of the seed bank in 31 plots representing a range of habitats within an old-growth, temperate deciduous forest at Mont St. Hilaire, Québec, Canada. We identified 49 taxa in the seed bank, with an average of 40 species·m-2 and a median density of 1218 seeds·m-2. The most frequent seeds were species of Carex and Rubus, Diervilla lonicera, and Eupatorium rugosum, while seeds of Carex were the most numerous overall. Of the 12 species in the seed bank not found in the forest, 11 were found growing on the developed landscape surrounding this 10-km2 forest fragment. These nonforest species were numerically only a minor component of the forest seed bank. Vernal herbs were not in the seed bank, and there were only a few tree species. Variation in seed bank richness among habitats was correlated positively with canopy cover, soil moisture, and soil nutrients, but not with the seed bank density or total number of species in the aboveground vegetation. Seed bank density increased with plot soil moisture. Woody species predominated in the seed bank of plots with richer soils, deeper litter, and more closed canopies. Herbaceous species predominated in the seed bank of plots with more open canopies, more mesic water regimes, and greater species richness in the aboveground vegetation. Contrary to earlier results suggesting forest seed banks primarily include shade-intolerant species associated with canopy disturbance or secondary succession, the seed bank in this old-growth, primary forest contains many shade-tolerant forest species.Key words: seed bank, old-growth forest, primary forest, temperate deciduous forest, habitat diversity, seed dispersal.

scholarly journals Can vegetation index track the interannual variation in gross primary production of temperate deciduous forests?

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fan Liu ◽  
Chuankuan Wang ◽  
Xingchang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Primary Production ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Deciduous Forest ◽  
Gross Primary Production ◽  
Growing Season ◽  
Temperate Deciduous Forest ◽  
Near Infrared Reflectance ◽  
Modis Ndvi ◽  
Temperate Deciduous

Abstract Background Vegetation indices (VIs) by remote sensing are widely used as simple proxies of the gross primary production (GPP) of vegetation, but their performances in capturing the inter-annual variation (IAV) in GPP remain uncertain. Methods We evaluated the performances of various VIs in tracking the IAV in GPP estimated by eddy covariance in a temperate deciduous forest of Northeast China. The VIs assessed included the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), the enhanced vegetation index (EVI), and the near-infrared reflectance of vegetation (NIRv) obtained from tower-radiometers (broadband) and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), respectively. Results We found that 25%–35% amplitude of the broadband EVI tracked the start of growing season derived by GPP (R2: 0.56–0.60, bias < 4 d), while 45% (or 50%) amplitudes of broadband (or MODIS) NDVI represented the end of growing season estimated by GPP (R2: 0.58–0.67, bias < 3 d). However, all the VIs failed to characterize the summer peaks of GPP. The growing-season integrals but not averaged values of the broadband NDVI, MODIS NIRv and EVI were robust surrogates of the IAV in GPP (R2: 0.40–0.67). Conclusion These findings illustrate that specific VIs are effective only to capture the GPP phenology but not the GPP peak, while the integral VIs have the potential to mirror the IAV in GPP.

Storm damage and long-term mortality in a semi-natural, temperate deciduous forest

2004 ◽  
Vol 188 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 197-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annett Wolf ◽  
Peter Friis Møller ◽  
Richard H.W. Bradshaw ◽  
Jaris Bigler
Keyword(s):  
Deciduous Forest ◽  
Storm Damage ◽  
Temperate Deciduous Forest ◽  
Temperate Deciduous ◽  
Long Term Mortality
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