Out on a limb: microarthropod and microclimate variation in coastal temperate rainforest canopies

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 513-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoë Lindo ◽  
Neville Winchester
Keyword(s):  
Temperate Rainforest ◽  
Microclimate Variation

SPODOSOLS DEVELOPMENT AND SLOPE STABILITY IN OLD-GROWTH TEMPERATE RAINFOREST OF SE ALASKA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel Portes ◽  
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Diogo Spinola ◽  
David V. D`Amore ◽  
Michael Ketterer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Slope Stability ◽  
Old Growth ◽  
Temperate Rainforest

Effects of forest successional status on microenvironmental conditions, diversity, and distribution of filmy fern species in a temperate rainforest

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfredo Saldaña ◽  
Maria J. Parra ◽  
Alejandra Flores-Bavestrello ◽  
Luis J. Corcuera ◽  
León A. Bravo
Keyword(s):  
Temperate Rainforest ◽  
Successional Status ◽  
Fern Species

Holocene soil-geomorphic surfaces influence the role of salmon-derived nutrients in the coastal temperate rainforest of Southeast Alaska

Geomorphology ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 126 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 377-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
David V. D'Amore ◽  
Nicholas S. Bonzey ◽  
Jacob Berkowitz ◽  
Janine Rüegg ◽  
Scott Bridgham
Keyword(s):  
Temperate Rainforest ◽  
Southeast Alaska ◽  
Geomorphic Surfaces

Residual Large Trees Influence Short-term Succession Following a Volcanic Eruption in a Valdivian Temperate Rainforest

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Hintz ◽  
Dylan Fischer ◽  
Nina Ferrari ◽  
Charlie M.S. Crisafulli
Keyword(s):  
Soil Surface ◽  
Bare Soil ◽  
Understory Vegetation ◽  
Percent Cover ◽  
Vegetative Cover ◽  
Vegetation Response ◽  
Temperate Rainforest ◽  
Large Trees ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
Disturbed Forest

Abstract Airborne volcanic ejecta (tephra) can strongly influence forest ecosystems through initial disturbance processes and subsequent ecological response. Within a tephra-disturbed forest, large trees may promote plant growth and create favorable sites for colonization. Three primary ways trees can influence post-eruption vegetation response include: 1) amelioration of volcanic substrates, 2) as source propagules from the tree or from associated epiphytes, and 3) by sheltering understory vegetation, thereby increasing rate of recovery near tree bases. Here, we evaluate Valdivian temperate rainforest understory vegetation response and soil characteristics in close proximity to large trees that survived the 2015 eruption of Calbuco Volcano. Understory vegetative cover was higher near the base of trees for mosses, many epiphytes, and some herbaceous, shrub, and trees species. However, significant interactions with year of measurement, and individualistic responses by many species made generalizations more difficult. Small shrubs and trees in particular demonstrated patterns of recovery that were frequently independent of distance. In some cases, percent cover of colonizing vegetation actually increased far from trees by 2019. The soil surface was similarly variable where bare soil cover was associated with locations proximal to tree bases, but material shed from living and dead standing vegetation increased wood and litter abundances on the soil surface away from the base of trees. Soils near trees had lower pH, elevated organic matter, and higher nitrogen and carbon. Our results support the assertion that in this temperate rainforest ecosystem, large trees can modify edaphic conditions and provide important early refugia for vegetative regrowth following a tephra fall event. Nevertheless, complex interactions through time with species and growth form, suggest the influence of large trees on plant establishment and growth with close proximity tree boles is more complex than a simple facilitative model might suggest.

Fine-scale movements of rural free-ranging dogs in conservation areas in the temperate rainforest of the coastal range of southern Chile

2015 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 290-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maximiliano Sepúlveda ◽  
Katherine Pelican ◽  
Paul Cross ◽  
Antonieta Eguren ◽  
Randall Singer
Keyword(s):  
Fine Scale ◽  
Southern Chile ◽  
Conservation Areas ◽  
Temperate Rainforest ◽  
Free Ranging ◽  
Coastal Range
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