Barriers to natural regeneration in temperate forests across the USA

DC Dey, BO Knapp, MA Battaglia, RL Deal, JL Hart… - New Forests, 2019 - Springer
For millennia, natural disturbance regimes, including anthropogenic fire and hunting
practices, have led to forest regeneration patterns that created a diversity of forest lands …

Lessons from native spruce forests in Alaska: managing Sitka spruce plantations worldwide to benefit biodiversity and ecosystem services

RL Deal, P Hennon, R O'Hanlon, D D'Amore - Forestry, 2014 - academic.oup.com
There is increasing interest worldwide in managing forests to maintain or improve
biodiversity, enhance ecosystem services and assure long-term sustainability of forest …

Land use and watershed health in the United States

I Hascic, JJ Wu - Land Economics, 2006 - le.uwpress.org
This national-scale, watershed-level analysis provides an empirical assessment of land use
impacts on water quality and aquatic ecosystems in the United States. Results suggest that …

Management strategies to increase stand structural diversity and enhance biodiversity in coastal rainforests of Alaska

RL Deal - Biological Conservation, 2007 - Elsevier
Coastal rainforests of southeast Alaska have relatively simple species composition but
complex structures with high diversity of tree ages, sizes and forest canopy layers, and an …

Benthic invertebrate community structure is influenced by forest succession after clearcut logging in southeastern Alaska

O Hernandez, RW Merritt, MS Wipfli - Hydrobiologia, 2005 - Springer
To assess the effects of timber harvesting on headwater streams in upland forests, benthic
community structure was contrasted among four dominant forest management types (old …

Potential management of young-growth stands for understory vegetation and wildlife habitat in southeastern Alaska

TA Hanley - Landscape and urban planning, 2005 - Elsevier
I review the current state of knowledge about dynamics of understory vegetation in
postlogging succession and responses to silviculture treatments in southeastern Alaska, and …

Relations between red alder composition and understory vegetation in young mixed forests of southeast Alaska

TA Hanley, RL Deal… - Canadian Journal of …, 2006 - cdnsciencepub.com
Interest in mixed red alder (Alnus rubra Bong.) conifer young-growth stands has grown in
southeast Alaska, USA, because they appear to provide much more productive understory …

Stand dynamics of mixed red alder conifer forests of southeast Alaska

RL Deal, PE Hennon, EH Orlikowska… - Canadian Journal of …, 2004 - cdnsciencepub.com
La structure et la dynamique des peuplements ont été évaluées dans les forêts mélangées
d'aulne rouge (Alnus rubra Bong.) et de conifères du sud-est de l'Alaska en estimant le …

Red alder-conifer stands in Alaska: an example of mixed species management to enhance structural and biological complexity

RL Deal, EH Orlikowska, DV D'Amore, PE Hennon - Forests, 2017 - mdpi.com
There is worldwide interest in managing forests to improve biodiversity, enhance ecosystem
services and assure long-term sustainability of forest resources. An increasingly important …

Maximum stand-density index of 40 western hemlock–Sitka spruce stands in southeast Alaska

NJ Poage, DD Marshall… - Western Journal of …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Reineke's (1933) maximum stand-density index (SDImax) was determined for 40
unthinned, fully stocked, even-aged, hemlock-spruce stands in southeast Alaska. A …