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Senf, Cornelius, Jörg Müller, and Rupert Seidl. "Post-disturbance recovery of forest cover and tree height differ with management in Central Europe." Landscape Ecology 34, no. 12 (October 30, 2019): 2837–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10980-019-00921-9.

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Abstract Context Recovery from disturbances is a prominent measure of forest ecosystem resilience, with swift recovery indicating resilient systems. The forest ecosystems of Central Europe have recently been affected by unprecedented levels of natural disturbance, yet our understanding of their ability to recover from disturbances is still limited. Objectives We here integrated satellite and airborne Lidar data to (i) quantify multi-decadal post-disturbance recovery of two indicators of forest structure, and (ii) compare the recovery trajectories of forest structure among managed and un-managed forests. Methods We developed satellite-based models predicting Lidar-derived estimates of tree cover and stand height at 30 m grain across a 3100 km2 landscape in the Bohemian Forest Ecosystem (Central Europe). We summarized the percentage of disturbed area that recovered to > 40% tree cover and > 5 m stand height and quantified the variability in both indicators over a 30-year period. The analyses were stratified by three management regimes (managed, protected, strictly protected) and two forest types (beech-dominated, spruce-dominated). Results We found that on average 84% of the disturbed area met our recovery threshold 30 years post-disturbance. The rate of recovery was slower in un-managed compared to managed forests. Variability in tree cover was more persistent over time in un-managed forests, while managed forests strongly converged after a few decades post-disturbance. Conclusion We conclude that current management facilitates the recovery of forest structure in Central European forest ecosystems. However, our results underline that forests recovered well from disturbances also in the absence of human intervention. Our analysis highlights the high resilience of Central European forest ecosystems to recent disturbances.

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Löw, Markus, and Tatjana Koukal. "Phenology Modelling and Forest Disturbance Mapping with Sentinel-2 Time Series in Austria." Remote Sensing 12, no. 24 (December 21, 2020): 4191. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs12244191.

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Worldwide, forests provide natural resources and ecosystem services. However, forest ecosystems are threatened by increasing forest disturbance dynamics, caused by direct human activities or by altering environmental conditions. It is decisive to reconstruct and trace the intra- to transannual dynamics of forest ecosystems. National to local forest authorities and other stakeholders request detailed area-wide maps that delineate forest disturbance dynamics at various spatial scales. We developed a time series analysis (TSA) framework that comprises data download, data management, image preprocessing and an advanced but flexible TSA. We use dense Sentinel-2 time series and a dynamic Savitzky–Golay-filtering approach to model robust but sensitive phenology courses. Deviations from the phenology models are used to derive detailed spatiotemporal information on forest disturbances. In a first case study, we apply the TSA to map forest disturbances directly or indirectly linked to recurring bark beetle infestation in Northern Austria. In addition to spatially detailed maps, zonal statistics on different spatial scales provide aggregated information on the extent of forest disturbances between 2018 and 2019. The outcomes are (a) area-wide consistent data of individual phenology models and deduced phenology metrics for Austrian forests and (b) operational forest disturbance maps, useful to investigate and monitor forest disturbances to facilitate sustainable forest management.

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Jõgiste, Kalev, Lee E. Frelich, Floortje Vodde, Ahto Kangur, Marek Metslaid, and John A. Stanturf. "Natural Disturbance Dynamics Analysis for Ecosystem-Based Management—FORDISMAN." Forests 11, no. 6 (June 11, 2020): 663. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f11060663.

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Forest ecosystems are shaped by disturbances and functional features of vegetation recovery after disturbances. There is considerable variation in basic disturbance characteristics, magnitude, severity, and intensity. Disturbance legacies provide possible explanations for ecosystem resilience. The impact (length and strength) of the pool of ecosystem legacies and how they vary at different spatial and temporal scales is a most promising line of further research. Analyses of successional trajectories, ecosystem memory, and novel ecosystems are required to improve modelling in support of forests. There is growing evidence that managing ecosystem legacies can act as a driver in adaptive management to achieve goals in forestry. Managers can adapt to climate change and new conditions through anticipatory or transformational strategies of ecosystem management. The papers presented in this Special Issue covers a wide range of topics, including the impact of herbivores, wind, and anthropogenic factors, on ecosystem resilience.

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Kutnar, Nagel, and Kermavnar. "Effects of Disturbance on Understory Vegetation across Slovenian Forest Ecosystems." Forests 10, no. 11 (November 19, 2019): 1048. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f10111048.

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The herbaceous understory represents a key component of forest biodiversity across temperate forests of Europe. Here, we quantified changes in the diversity and composition of the forest understory layer in representative Slovenian forest ecosystems between 2004/05 and 2014/15. In total, 60 plots were placed across 10 different managed forest types, ranging from lowland deciduous and mid-altitude mesic mixed forests to mountain conifer forests. This network is part of an international network of sites launched within the ICP Forests Programme aimed to assess the condition of forests in Europe. To examine how disturbance influenced understory dynamics, we estimated the disturbance impacts considering both natural and/or anthropogenic disturbances that cause significant damage to trees and to ground-surface layers, including ground-vegetation layers and upper-soil layers. Species richness across 10 sites (gamma diversity) significantly decreased from 272 to 243 species during the study period, while mean species richness per site did not significantly change. The mean value of site level Shannon diversity indices and evenness significantly increased. The cover of most common plant species increased during the monitoring period. The mean value of disturbance estimates per site increased from 0.8% in 2004/05 (ranging from 0% to 2.5%) to 16.3% in 2014/15 (ranging from 5.0% to 38.8%), which corresponded to a reduction in total vegetation cover, including tree-layer cover. More disturbed sites showed larger temporal changes in species composition compared to less disturbed sites, suggesting that forest disturbances caused understory compositional shifts during the study period. Rather than observing an increase in plant diversity due to disturbance, our results suggest a short-term decrease in species number, likely driven by replacement of more specialized species with common species.

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Pan, Y., J. M. Chen, R. Birdsey, K. McCullough, L. He, and F. Deng. "Age structure and disturbance legacy of North American forests." Biogeosciences 8, no. 3 (March 18, 2011): 715–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-8-715-2011.

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Abstract. Most forests of the world are recovering from a past disturbance. It is well known that forest disturbances profoundly affect carbon stocks and fluxes in forest ecosystems, yet it has been a great challenge to assess disturbance impacts in estimates of forest carbon budgets. Net sequestration or loss of CO2 by forests after disturbance follows a predictable pattern with forest recovery. Forest age, which is related to time since disturbance, is a useful surrogate variable for analyses of the impact of disturbance on forest carbon. In this study, we compiled the first continental forest age map of North America by combining forest inventory data, historical fire data, optical satellite data and the dataset from NASA's Landsat Ecosystem Disturbance Adaptive Processing System (LEDAPS) project. A companion map of the standard deviations for age estimates was developed for quantifying uncertainty. We discuss the significance of the disturbance legacy from the past, as represented by current forest age structure in different regions of the US and Canada, by analyzing the causes of disturbances from land management and nature over centuries and at various scales. We also show how such information can be used with inventory data for analyzing carbon management opportunities. By combining geographic information about forest age with estimated C dynamics by forest type, it is possible to conduct a simple but powerful analysis of the net CO2 uptake by forests, and the potential for increasing (or decreasing) this rate as a result of direct human intervention in the disturbance/age status. Finally, we describe how the forest age data can be used in large-scale carbon modeling, both for land-based biogeochemistry models and atmosphere-based inversion models, in order to improve the spatial accuracy of carbon cycle simulations.

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Bradley, Elizabeth A., and Graeme Lockaby. "Invasive Wild Pigs: A Significant Disturbance in Coastal Forests." Forests 12, no. 8 (August 5, 2021): 1042. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f12081042.

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Introduced in ~59 countries and native across Europe and Asia, wild pigs, Sus scrofa, are the most wide-spread swine species in the world. As ecosystem engineers, wild pigs are a significant source of disturbance in introduced ecosystems due to their numerous, complex impacts on ecosystem processes. Wild pigs are often found in the resource-rich habitat of coastal forests. Coastal forests are complex, dynamic systems with tremendous biodiversity. Exposed to recurrent disturbances, the biophysical characteristics of coastal forests contribute to their ability to return to their original state post-disturbance. However, compounding disturbances can weaken this ability and threaten the health and function of the ecosystem. In this review, through the model of the forests of the southeastern United States Coastal Plain, we (1) describe conditions found across the forested coastal landscape, (2) describe wild pig disturbance, and (3) discuss how wild pig impacts can add to significant anthropogenic and climate-related disturbances threatening coastal forests. Through this review, we find that the impacts of wild pig disturbance on coastal forests often have similar effects as anthropogenic and climate change-related disturbances that may enhance these significant threats to coastal forest function and resiliency.

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Berglund, Håkan, and Timo Kuuluvainen. "Representative boreal forest habitats in northern Europe, and a revised model for ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation." Ambio 50, no. 5 (January 17, 2021): 1003–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-020-01444-3.

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AbstractThe natural range of variation of ecosystems provides reference conditions for sustainable management and biodiversity conservation. We review how the understanding of natural reference conditions of boreal forests in northern Europe has changed from earlier perceptions of even-aged dynamics driven by stand-replacing disturbances towards current understanding highlighting the role of non-stand-replacing disturbances and the resultant complex forest dynamics and structures. We show how earlier views and conceptual models of forest disturbance dynamics, including the influential ASIO model, provide estimates of reference conditions that are outside the natural range of variation. Based on a research synthesis, we present a revised forest reference model incorporating the observed complexity of ecosystem dynamics and the prevalence of old forests. Finally, we outline a management model and demonstrate its use in forest ecosystem management and show how regional conservation area needs can be estimated. We conclude that attaining favourable conservation status in northern Europe’s boreal forests requires increasing emphasis on ecosystem management and conservation for old forest characteristics.

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Lewis, Kathy J., and B. Staffan Lindgren. "A conceptual model of biotic disturbance ecology in the central interior of B.C.: How forest management can turn Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde." Forestry Chronicle 76, no. 3 (June 1, 2000): 433–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.5558/tfc76433-3.

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In forested ecosystems, insects and pathogens play an important role in ecosystem function, and there is increasing evidence that these organisms are primary determinants of forest structure and composition. Recent research has confirmed this even in sub-boreal forests, where fire was traditionally thought to be the major agent of disturbance and hence the main driver of successional processes. This paper presents a conceptual model of biotic disturbance ecology in sub-boreal forests of central B.C. We also describe how forest management practices can lead to forest health problems by disrupting these ecological processes, and the natural population dynamics of insects and pathogens. Key words: disturbance ecology, succession, forest pest, sub-boreal, forest management, forest health

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Cai, Yanjiang, and Scott X. Chang. "Disturbance Effects on Soil Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Forest Ecosystems." Forests 11, no. 3 (March 7, 2020): 297. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f11030297.

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Forests cover around 30% of the global land area and forest ecosystems can store over 70% of total soil organic carbon (SOC) of all terrestrial ecosystems, but SOC stocks and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions may be affected by both natural and anthropogenic disturbances. Even though the changes in forest soil C pool can have a significant effect on climate change, there are some contradictory results regarding the role of forest disturbance on SOC sequestration, GHG emissions, and the mitigation of global changes. Therefore, there is a need to better understand the impact of different disturbance regimes on forest soil C storage and GHG emissions. A Special Issue was therefore organized for discussing the responses of soil C storage and GHG emissions to various types of disturbances in forest ecosystems and a total of 15 studies were accepted for this special issue to assess these responses. This Special Issue includes the effects of storms and beetle outbreaks, Karstification, rock desertification, warming, nitrogen addition, land-use change, field tillage, and biochar application on soil C dynamics and/or GHG emissions.

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Konôpka, Bohdan, Peter Zach, and Ján Kulfan. "Wind – an important ecological factor and destructive agent in forests." Forestry Journal 62, no. 2 (June 1, 2016): 123–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/forj-2016-0013.

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AbstractWind is both an ecological provider and disturbance facilitator influences trees and other organisms in forests. Impacts of wind on induvidual trees and forests mainly depend on the strength (or intensity) of the wind and the stability of the trees. Wind causes large-scale damage to forests and serious economical losses for the forestry sector within Europe. Therefore, knowledge of interactions between wind and trees and/or forests provides the baseline for developing adequate prevention or mitigation of the negative consequences associated with wind disturbances in forest ecosystems. Herein, we analyse the wind as an ecological and disturbance factor in forests in Europe, emphasising forests in Slovakia. Here, strong winds destroy mostly spruce dominated forests in the following regions; Orava, High and Low Tatra Mountains, Great Fatra Mountains, Pohronie, Poľana Mountains and Slovak Ore Mountains. Increasing volumes of timber damaged by windstorms have been documented since 1961, with the maximum damage recorded in 2004. Yearly volumes of damaged timber of approximately 2.5 mil. m3are predicted from 2016 to 2030. This highlights the data requirement regarding wind disturbances for integrated forest protection against dangerous winds and other disturbance agents in forest ecosystems in Slovakia and other European countries.

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Perry, Kayla I. "Responses of Ground-dwelling Invertebrate Communities to Disturbance in Forest Ecosystems." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148068350792523.

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McEwan, Ryan W. "Tree-Ring Based Reconstructions of Disturbance and Growth Dynamics in Several Deciduous Forest Ecosystems." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1150748370.

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Allen, Bruce Peter. "Vegetation dynamics and response to disturbance, in floodplain forest ecosystems with a focus on lianas." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1179427491.

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Allen, Bruce Peter. "Vegetation dynamics and response to disturbance of floodplain forest ecosystems with a focus on lianas." The Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1179427491.

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Nakahata, Ryo. "Long-term dynamics of fine roots in forest ecosystems evaluated by scanned image analysis." Kyoto University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/242719.

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Flynn, Conor R. "Soil Respiration Response to Disturbance in a Northern Michigan Forest." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1336919672.

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Igu, Nwabueze. "Freshwater swamp forest ecosystem in the Niger Delta : ecology, disturbance and ecosystem services." Thesis, University of York, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/15511/.

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Freshwater swamp forests are wetland ecosystems of global importance, especially because they provide very valuable ecosystem services such as regulation of flood and maintenance of water quality, and provide suitable habitat for the conservation of wetland ecosystems (flora and fauna). Though they are hosts to important biodiversity as in other tropical ecosystems, their ecology, function and contribution to ecosystem services are poorly understood. With poor baseline data on this threatened ecosystem across the Niger Delta region and the entire West African region, this thesis explores its ecology, biogeography and the capacity to which this ecosystem sequester carbon, in a bid to better prioritize and inform effective conservation and management. Floristic compositions of the ecosystem were varied in density, diversity and rarity across undisturbed, disturbed and transition (mangrove-freshwater) zones. A total of 138 species within 100 genera and 41 families of taxa were identified across the 24 one hectare forest plots; with variations in dominance according to each of the zones. With a stem density which ranged from 94 – 506 stems ha-1, the ecosystem was seen to be comparable with other tropical forest ecosystems, but were poorer in species richness as a result of the environmental constraints associated with the swamp. Though disturbance (local factors) influenced the pattern of species distribution to a great extent, environmental (regional factors) equally contributed to this variation. Above ground carbon estimates (AGC) were also similar to other African forest ecosystems, with the estimates varying at the plot level mainly due to disturbance gradients. Other variables that contributed to AGC variations included the floristic composition (which were found to be more carbon dense towards the transition zones), tree structure and climatic variables. Other ecosystem services derived from the ecosystem (timber and non-timber forest products) were found to be a major source of sustenance and income generation at varying levels. Household usage and dependence on the forests were mainly influenced by the degrees of remoteness of each community, and whether each of the households had other alternative sources of livelihood. With a poor perception of decline in ecosystem services with usage, the forests has steadily shrunk and degraded.

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Scheuermann, Cynthia M. "Forest Stand Structure and Primary Production in relation to Ecosystem Development, Disturbance, and Canopy Composition." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4653.

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Temperate forests are complex ecosystems that sequester carbon (C) in biomass. C storage is related to ecosystem-scale forest structure, changing over succession, disturbance, and with community composition. We quantified ecosystem biological and physical structure in two forest chronosequences varying in disturbance intensity, and three late successional functional types to examine how multiple structural expressions relate to ecosystem C cycling. We quantified C cycling as wood net primary production (NPP), ecosystem structure as Simpson’s Index, and physical structure as leaf quantity (LAI) and arrangement (rugosity), examining how wood NPP-structure relates to light distribution and use-efficiency. Relationships between structural attributes of biodiversity, LAI, and rugosity differed. Development of rugosity was conserved regardless of disturbance and composition, suggesting optimization of vegetation arrangement over succession. LAI and rugosity showed significant positive productivity trends over succession, particularly within deciduous broadleaf forests, suggesting these measures of structure contain complementary, not redundant, information related to C cycling.

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Lovseth, John Timothy. "THE PROLOGUE TO MANAGEMENT: THE EFFECTS OF HISTORICAL ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITIES ON FOREST ECOSYSTEMS AND CURRENT MANAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS." OpenSIUC, 2018. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1623.

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Forest disturbance occurs on a wide gradient of selectiveness and creates new growth opportunities for adapted species. Across the spectrum of disturbance, anthropogenic disturbance influences community assembly in the Midwest more than other mechanisms but is its role in shaping and maintaining ecosystems is inadequately considered in most discussions on the historic range of variability (HRV). Forest resiliency is threatened by unprecedented agents of ecosystem change such as invasive species and reduced regeneration potential of native species. Historic anthropogenic disturbance largely resulted in forest conditions which commonly contained high value attributes like heterogeneity across habitat types and landscape diversity, yet also produced forests of undesirable traits due to high grading for timber and overgrazing by domesticated stock. In order to maintain historical representative forests and improve the degraded forests, active forest management is necessary to continue historic disturbance patterns and combat new threats. Forest transition theory is used here to describe the impacts of human settlement and development activities on forest ecosystems across the Middle Mississippi River Valley. To date, researchers have identified the need for information related to changes of forest attributes such as species composition and stand structure, improved descriptions of short- and medium-term dynamics within the context of the long-term transition, and the integration of biophysical drivers of forest change through time. In Midwestern U.S.A., forest dynamics were influenced by frequent, low intensity disturbance events that mediate forest composition and stand structure by selecting for disturbance regimes that create oak woodland and interspersed prairies and meadows. The onset of Euro-American settlement was accompanied by detailed land-use records with information related to forest attributes, agricultural activities, and parcel ownership patterns. We aggregated multiple sources of historic forest conditions into a geodatabase in order to document changes over the past 200 years in Elsah Township, Illinois, where the pre-settlement (1820) forest, once dominated by oak and hickory species, has largely shifted to a maple dominated system with a declining oak-hickory component, heavily influenced by an invasive shrub species, bush honeysuckle. Using on ordinary kriging interpolation, forest density was estimated at 8.7 stems per acre on average with a mean basal area of 14.6 square feet per acre prior to settlement. Conservation practices of the early 1900s, including fire suppression and erosion control resulted in changes to forest structure with density increases to 127 trees per acre with a basal area of 175.8 square feet per acre. The high degree of topographic variability near the Mississippi River influenced forest cover changes as slopes with low angles were the first to be converted from forest cover to other land uses (circa 1850). Forest re-initiation occurred in areas with steeper slope due to a lack of human activities. Forest cover declined to the lowest point in 1927 and has been rebounding steadily throughout this century. Of the original 15,252 forested acres, 11.6% remained covered throughout the past 200 years and coincided with slopes with an average of 39.1 degrees. These data can provide a spatially explicit and historically accurate tool to guide land management decisions including restoration treatment, disturbance regime management, and land use preservation activities in similarly heterogeneous environments. Forest communities along the bluffs of the Mississippi River differ in species composition and stand structure associated with specific topographic positions of floodplain, transition talus slope, bluff top, and upland. In order to assess current stand characteristics and ecosystem trajectory, we measured all woody stems in 316 fixed radius plots (79 plots per topographic position) with a plot area of 25 m2. Alpha (defined as within system diversity) and Beta (defined as between system diversity) diversity and diameter distributions were determined for seedling, shrub layer, and overstory stems. Stem density increased from 21.4 stems ha-1 in 1820 to 613 stems ha-1 in 1936 followed by reduction to 314 stems ha-1 in 2017. Average stand diameter decreased from 40.9 cm in 1820 to 25.3 cm in 2017 (for upland stems greater than 7.5 cm) while basal area increased from 3.3 m2 ha-1 in 1820 to 40.4 m2 ha-1 in 2017. Alpha diversity was highest in the upland overstory and in the river island shrub layer. Beta diversity in the overstory was highest (0.67) between the bluff and the upland while lowest (0.08) between the bluff and the river island. Importantly, mesophytic species are no longer restricted to watercourses and valleys as reported in historical accounts and confirmed by the spatial analysis of original witness tree records. Currently, bush honeysuckle, an invasive species, dominates the shrub layer on most non-hydric sites of the talus slope, upland, and particularly across the bluff top where it is an indicator. Across all forest sites in the study, we found evidence of a community shift to less diversity and more mesophytic species over the past 80 years. Hill prairie vegetation on the limestone bluffs of the central Mississippi River Valley represents a significant portion of the remaining prairie, savanna, and woodland systems of the Midwest and should be appropriately managed with prescribed fire and woody stem reduction efforts. We examined the structure, composition, and temporal community patterns of the forest-prairie gradient by employing hierarchical cluster analysis and non-metric multi-dimensional scaling in combination with indicator species analysis and dendrochronological methods. Results suggest that four general community types exist across the forest-prairie gradient: Group 1 consists of the woodland community structure with significant indicator values for the density of Juniperus virginiana (indicator value 58.4, p = 0.0002), Carya glabra (45, 0.0022), Quercus stellata (23.7, 0.0424), and Lonicera maackii (74.2, 0.0002) and a high basal area (BA) of J. virgniana (21.4, 0.0276) and L. maackii (47.9, 0.0054). The first year of L. maackii presence was 1964 with the primary wave of invasion beginning around 1990. Group 2 contains bare soil coverage in the subplot (40.4, 0.0002) as the one indicator at a significant level. The species with the highest BA in Group 2 include Acer saccharum (9.08 m2 ha-1), Q. velutina (5.89 m2 ha-1), and Q. muehlenbergii (5.32 m2 ha-1). Group 3 typifies the hill prairie community with the sole indicator of grass coverage in the subplots (39.7, 0.0196). Group 4 represents the stage of forest development following the cessation of disturbance events and the trajectory advancing towards a mesophytic forest and contains 14 significant indicators.

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Obati, Gilbert Obwoyere. "An investigation of forest ecosystem health in relation to anthropogenic disturbance in the south-western Mau Forest Reserve, Kenya." kostenfrei, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=985919086.

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Books on the topic "Disturbance of forest ecosystems"

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Scarratt, J. B. Response to disturbance in boreal mixedwood ecosystems: The Black Sturgeon Boreal Mixedwood Research Project. Sault Ste. Marie, Ont: Great Lakes Forestry Centre, 1996.

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M, Anderson J. Carbon, nutrient and water balances of tropical rain forest ecosystems subject to disturbance: Management implications and research proposals. Paris: Unesco, 1991.

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International Boreal Forest Research Association. Meeting. Disturbance in boreal forest ecosystems: Human impacts and natural processes : proceedings of the International Boreal Forest Research Association 1997 meeting, August 4-7, 1997, Duluth, Minnesota, USA. St. Paul, MN (1992 Folwell Ave., St. Paul 55108): U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station, 2000.

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1935-, Likens Gene E., ed. Pattern and process in a forested ecosystem: Disturbance, development, and the steady state based on the Hubbard Brook ecosystem study. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1994.

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Werner, Richard A. Effect of ecosystem disturbance on diversity of bark and wood-boring beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae, Buprestidae, Cerambycidae) in white spruce (Picea glauca (Monch) Voss) ecosystems of Alaska. [Portland, Or.]: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 2002.

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Werner, Richard A. Effect of ecosystem disturbance on diversity of bark and wood-boring beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae, Buprestidae, Cerambycidae) in white spruce (Picea glauca (Monch) Voss) ecosystems of Alaska. [Portland, Or.]: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 2002.

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Miller, Richard F. A field guide for rapid assessment of post-wildfire recovery potential in sagebrush and Piñon-Juniper ecosystems in the Great Basin: Evaluating resilience to disturbance and resistance to invasive annual grasses and predicting vegetation response. Fort Collins, CO: United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2015.

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A, Perry David. Forest ecosystems. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

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Perry, David A. Forest ecosystems. 2nd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

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1952-, Oren Ram, and Hart Stephen C. 1961-, eds. Forest ecosystems. 2nd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

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Lorenz, Klaus, and Rattan Lal. "Effects of Disturbance, Succession and Management on Carbon Sequestration." In Carbon Sequestration in Forest Ecosystems, 103–57. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3266-9_3.

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Bradshaw, Richard, and Gina Hannon. "The Disturbance Dynamics of Swedish Boreal Forest." In Responses of Forest Ecosystems to Environmental Changes, 528–35. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2866-7_53.

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Bruijnzeel, L. A. Sampurno. "Soil chemical changes after tropical forest disturbance and conversion: The hydrological perspective." In Soils of Tropical Forest Ecosystems, 45–61. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03649-5_5.

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Ayres, Matthew P., and Gregory A. Reams. "Global Change and Disturbance in Southern Forest Ecosystems." In Ecological Studies, 741–52. New York, NY: Springer New York, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2178-4_40.

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Holopainen, A.-L., and P. Huttunen. "Effects of forest clear-cutting and soil disturbance on the biology of small forest brooks." In The Dynamics and Use of Lacustrine Ecosystems, 457–64. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2745-5_48.

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Mazzoleni, Stefano, and Francesco Spada. "Deciduous Broadleaved Versus Evergreen Sclerophyllous Forests. Disturbance and Local Shifting Dominance in Mediterranean Environments." In Responses of Forest Ecosystems to Environmental Changes, 839–40. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2866-7_186.

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Tomita, Mizuki, Yoshihiko Hirabuki, Hiroshi Kanno, and Keitarou Hara. "Influences of Large, Infrequent Disturbance Caused by Tsunami on Coastal Forest Communities." In Ecological Impacts of Tsunamis on Coastal Ecosystems, 383–94. Tokyo: Springer Japan, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56448-5_22.

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Pontius, Jennifer, Paul Schaberg, and Ryan Hanavan. "Remote Sensing for Early, Detailed, and Accurate Detection of Forest Disturbance and Decline for Protection of Biodiversity." In Remote Sensing of Plant Biodiversity, 121–54. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33157-3_6.

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AbstractMany ecosystems and the biodiversity they contain are currently faced with increasing disturbance frequency and intensity, concurrent with converging stress agents such as climate change, invasive species, and pollutant loads. Research has shown that the earlier decline can be detected, the more successful efforts will be in sustaining critical natural resources. While historically remote sensing (RS) has been successfully used to assess and monitor vegetation condition on a relative, coarse scale, advances in RS technologies and new modeling approaches now enable the identification and tracking of early and more subtle changes in vegetation condition, function, and structure. Here we review the current techniques used to assess and monitor forest ecosystem condition and disturbance and outline a general approach for earlier, more detailed, and accurate decline assessment. We also discuss the importance of engaging land managers, practitioners, and decision-makers in these efforts to ensure that the final products developed can be utilized by stakeholders to maximize the impact of these technologies moving forward.

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Hlásny, T., and M. Turčáni. "Insect Pests as Climate Change Driven Disturbances in Forest Ecosystems." In Bioclimatology and Natural Hazards, 165–77. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8876-6_15.

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Lenz, Roman J. M. "Consequences of a 150 years’ history of human disturbances in some forest ecosystems." In Biodiversity, Temperate Ecosystems, and Global Change, 265–89. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78972-4_15.

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Conference papers on the topic "Disturbance of forest ecosystems"

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Nguyen, Huy Trung, Mariela Soto-Berelov, Simon D. Jones, Andrew Haywood, and Samuel Hislop. "Mapping forest disturbance and recovery for forest dynamics over large areas using Landsat time-series remote sensing." In Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology, edited by Christopher M. Neale and Antonino Maltese. SPIE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2276913.

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Fu, A., G. Sun, Y. Cai, and W. Ni. "Disturbance Detection and Assessment with MODIS Imagery in Boreal Forest Ecosystem." In 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. IEEE, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/igarss.2006.925.

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Kuuluvainen, Timo. "Natural disturbance regime as the basis of forest conservation and ecosystem management." In 5th European Congress of Conservation Biology. Jyväskylä: Jyvaskyla University Open Science Centre, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.17011/conference/eccb2018/107860.

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Parsekian, A. D., M. Bretfeld, B. E. Ewers, and J. Frank. "Time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography observation of subsurface forest ecosystem responses to interacting bark beetle and fire disturbance." In Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems 2021. Society of Exploration Geophysicists and Environment and Engineering Geophysical Society, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4133/sageep.33-096.

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Liu, Qi-Jing, Akihiko Kondoh, Ryutaro Tateishi, Tamio Takamura, and Nobuo Takeuchi. "Monitoring of the stability of boreal forest ecosystem in northeast China in relation to natural disturbance in Landsat TM imagery." In Second International Asia-Pacific Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Environment, and Space, edited by William L. Smith and Yoshifumi Yasuoka. SPIE, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.417011.

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ALLI, HAKAN. "PARASITIC�MACROFUNGI�IN�FOREST�ECOSYSTEMS�." In SGEM2012 12th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference and EXPO. Stef92 Technology, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgem2012/s15.v4003.

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Simonova, Galina. "ISOTOPE MONITORING OF FOREST ECOSYSTEMS." In 17th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM2017. Stef92 Technology, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgem2017/32/s14.114.

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"Forest Disturbance Information Layer for Alpine Forest Habitats." In GI_Forum 2013 - Creating the GISociety. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1553/giscience2013s528.

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Wallin, Kimberly F. "Measuring and modeling forest ecosystem service trade-offs of salvage logging following wind disturbances." In 2016 International Congress of Entomology. Entomological Society of America, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1603/ice.2016.93539.

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Zamuda, Ales, Janez Brest, Nikola Guid, and Viljem Zumer. "Modelling, Simulation, and Visualization of Forest Ecosystems." In EUROCON 2007 - The International Conference on "Computer as a Tool". IEEE, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/eurcon.2007.4400683.

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Reports on the topic "Disturbance of forest ecosystems"

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Swanston, Christopher W., Leslie A. Brandt, Patricia R. Butler-Leopold, Kimberly R. Hall, Maria K. Janowiak, Stephen D. Handler, Kyle Merriam, et al. Adaptation Strategies and Approaches for California Forest Ecosystems. U.S. Department of Agriculture, January 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2020.7204070.ch.

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Forest health has never been a more urgent concern in California. A variety of forest ecosystem types have experienced extraordinary combinations of stressors and disturbances over the past century, which have resulted in significant changes to forest conditions. Current conditions are a product of multiple interacting factors, including fire exclusion, historic logging practices, increased wildland-urban-interface expansion and, more recently, the effects associated with climate change. The intersection of the factors has led to high severity fire, drought linked mortality, and pest infestation and disease in the affected forests. It’s increasingly clear that the expected effects of climate change will further impact California forest ecosystems, potentially compelling and, in some cases, forcing the application of targeted adaptation strategies and approaches in the years and decades to come.

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Conard, Susan G. Disturbance in boreal forest ecosystems: human impacts and natural processes. Proceedings of the International Boreal Forest Research Association 1997 annual meeting; 1997 August 4-7; Duluth, Minnesota. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/nc-gtr-209.

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Douglas, Thomas A., Christopher A. Hiemstra, Miriam C. Jones, and Jeffrey R. Arnold. Sources and Sinks of Carbon in Boreal Ecosystems of Interior Alaska : A Review. U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, July 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/41163.

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Boreal ecosystems store large quantities of carbon but are increasingly vulnerable to carbon loss due to disturbance and climate warming. The boreal region in Alaska and Canada, largely underlain by discontinuous permafrost, presents a challenging landscape for itemizing carbon sources and sinks in soil and vegetation. The roles of fire, forest succession, and the presence/absence of permafrost on carbon cycle, vegetation, and hydrologic processes have been the focus of multidisciplinary research in boreal ecosystems for the past 20 years. However, projections of a warming future climate, an increase in fire severity and extent, and the potential degradation of permafrost could lead to major landscape and carbon cycle changes over the next 20 to 50 years. To assist land managers in interior Alaska in adapting and managing for potential changes in the carbon cycle, this paper was developed incorporating an overview of the climate, ecosystem processes, vegetation, and soil regimes. The objective is to provide a synthesis of the most current carbon storage estimates and measurements to guide policy and land management decisions on how to best manage carbon sources and sinks. We provide recommendations to address the challenges facing land managers in efforts to manage carbon cycle processes. The results of this study can be used for carbon cycle management in other locations within the boreal biome which encompasses a broad distribution from 45° to 83° north.

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Stumpff, Linda M., Fernando Sanchez-Trigueros, Alan E. Watson, Florence Mdodi, and Aaron Teasdale. Grassland, forest and riparian ecosystems on mixed-ownership federal lands adjacent to the Crow Indian Reservation: Developing a protective shield for sustainability of the environment and culture from the impacts of climate-related disturbance. Ft. Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/rmrs-gtr-410.

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Stumpff, Linda M., Fernando Sanchez-Trigueros, Alan E. Watson, Florence Mdodi, and Aaron Teasdale. Grassland, forest and riparian ecosystems on mixed-ownership federal lands adjacent to the Crow Indian Reservation: Developing a protective shield for sustainability of the environment and culture from the impacts of climate-related disturbance. Ft. Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/rmrs-gtr-410.

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Campbell, Sally, and Leon Liegel. Disturbance and Forest Health in Oregon and Washington. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/pnw-gtr-381.

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Megonigal, Patrick, and Scott Pitz. Cryptic Methane Emissions from Upland Forest Ecosystems. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), April 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1248029.

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Gier, John M., Kenneth M. Kindel, Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, and Louis J. Kuennen. Soil disturbance recovery on the Kootenai National Forest, Montana. Ft. Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/rmrs-gtr-380.

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Page-Dumroese, Deborah S., Ann M. Abbott, and Thomas M. Rice. Forest Soil Disturbance Monitoring Protocol: Volume I: Rapid assessment. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/wo-gtr-82a.

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Gier, John M., Kenneth M. Kindel, Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, and Louis J. Kuennen. Soil disturbance recovery on the Kootenai National Forest, Montana. Ft. Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/rmrs-gtr-380.

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