TEMPORAL VARIATION OF WOOD-FUNGI DIVERSITY IN BOREAL OLD-GROWTH FORESTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR MONITORING

2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 970-982 ◽  
Author(s):  
Håkan Berglund ◽  
Mattias Edman ◽  
Lars Ericson
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Variation ◽  
Old Growth ◽  
Old Growth Forests

scholarly journals Predicting the potential for old-growth forests by spatial simulation of landscape ageing patterns

2003 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 621-631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajith H Perera ◽  
David J.B. Baldwin ◽  
Dennis G Yemshanov ◽  
Frank Schnekenburger ◽  
Kevin Weaver ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Variation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Simulation Modelling ◽  
Spatial Simulation ◽  
Old Growth ◽  
Disturbance Regimes ◽  
Old Growth Forest ◽  
Large Scale Disturbance ◽  
Old Growth Forests ◽  
Spatio Temporal

Planning for old-growth forests requires answers to two large-scale questions: How much old-growth forest should exist? And where can they be sustained in a landscape? Stand-level knowledge of old-growth physiognomy and dynamics are not sufficient to answer these questions. We assert that large-scale disturbance regimes may provide a strong foundation to understand the spatio-temporal ageing patterns in forest landscapes that determine the potential for old growth. Approaches to describe large-scale disturbance regimes range from scenarios reconstructed from historical evidence to simulation of landscapes using predictive models. In this paper, we describe a simulation modelling approach to determine landscape-ageing patterns, and thereby the landscape potential of old-growth forests. A spatially explicit stochastic simulation model of landscape fire–forest cover dynamics was applied to a 1.8 million-ha case study boreal forest landscape to quantify the spatio-temporal variation of landscape ageing. Twenty-five replicates of 200-year simulation runs of the fire disturbance regime, at a 1-ha resolution, generated a suite of variables of landscape ageing and their error estimates. These included temporal variation of older age cohorts over 200 years, survivorship distribution at the 200th year, and spatial tendencies of ageing. This information, in combination with spatial tendency of species occurrence, constitutes the contextual framework to plan how much old-growth forest a given landscape can sustain, and where such forest could be located. Key words: landscape management, old growth, spatial simulation modelling, landscape ecology, boreal forest, Ontario, fire regime simulation, natural forest disturbances, stochastic models, age-class distribution

Trees dying standing in the northeastern boreal old-growth forests of Quebec: spatial patterns, rates, and temporal variation

2007 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuomas Aakala ◽  
Timo Kuuluvainen ◽  
Louis De Grandpré ◽  
Sylvie Gauthier
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Variation ◽  
Spatial Patterns ◽  
Tree Mortality ◽  
Abies Balsamea ◽  
Structural Complexity ◽  
Habitat Diversity ◽  
Old Growth ◽  
Dead Trees ◽  
Old Growth Forests ◽  
Standing Trees

Spatial patterns, rates, and temporal variation of standing-tree mortality were studied in unmanaged boreal old-growth forests of northeastern Quebec. The study was carried out by sampling living and dead trees within 15 transects (400 m long, 40 m wide). The transects lay in stands that were classified according to their species composition in three types: dominated by black spruce, Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP; mixed P. mariana and balsam fir, Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.; and dominated by A. balsamea. Spatial patterns were analysed using Ripley's K function. The year of death was cross-dated using 190 sample discs extracted from dead standing A. balsamea and P. mariana to assess the rates and temporal variation of mortality. The spatial patterns of standing dead trees in P. mariana stands were predominantly clustered. The spatial patterns of large dead trees (>19 cm diameter at breast height (1.3 m height; DBH)) in mixed and A. balsamea-dominated stands were mainly random, with few stands showing clustered patterns. Small dead trees (9–19 cm DBH) in these stands were generally more clustered than larger trees. Tree mortality varied from year to year, though some mortality was observed in all the studied stand types for almost every year. Standing trees that had recently died accounted for 62%, 48%, and 51% of overall mortality in P. mariana-dominated, mixed, and A. balsamea-dominated stands, respectively. The results of this study indicate that mortality of standing trees outside of episodic mortality events (such as insect outbreaks) is an important process in the creation of structural complexity and habitat diversity in these stands.

Northwest Forest Plan–the first 15 years (1994–2008): status and trends of late-successional and old-growth forests

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melinda Moeur ◽  
Janet L. Ohmann ◽  
Robert E. Kennedy ◽  
Warren B. Cohen ◽  
Matthew J. Gregory ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Old Growth ◽  
Status And Trends ◽  
Old Growth Forests ◽  
Northwest Forest Plan

Alternatives to clearcutting in the old-growth forests of southeast Alaska: study plan and establishment report.

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael H. McClellan ◽  
Douglas N. Swanston ◽  
Paul E. Hennon ◽  
Robert L. Deal ◽  
Toni L. de Santo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Old Growth ◽  
Southeast Alaska ◽  
Old Growth Forests ◽  
Study Plan

scholarly journals Our New Cathedrals: Spirituality and Old-Growth Forests in Western Australia

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Worth
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
The State ◽  
The South ◽  
Old Growth ◽  
The Past ◽  
South West ◽  
Old Growth Forests ◽  
Heated Debate ◽  
Policy Proposals

Over the past 30 years in Western Australia (WA), there has been heated debate about the future use of the remaining karri and jarrah forests in the south-west of the State. This debate revolves around policy proposals from two social movements: one wants to preserve as much of the remaining old-growth forests as possible, and an opposing movement supports a continued

Gender-related distributions of Fraxinus mandshurica in secondary and old-growth forests

2010 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunyu Zhang ◽  
Xiuhai Zhao ◽  
Lushuang Gao ◽  
Klaus von Gadow
Keyword(s):  
Fraxinus Mandshurica ◽  
Old Growth ◽  
Old Growth Forests

A comparison of different survey methods for assessing gap parameters in old-growth forests

2011 ◽  
Vol 262 (5) ◽  
pp. 886-893 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shin-Ichi Yamamoto ◽  
Naoyuki Nishimura ◽  
Takeshi Torimaru ◽  
Tohru Manabe ◽  
Akemi Itaya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Survey Methods ◽  
Old Growth ◽  
Old Growth Forests
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