Treefall gap, canopy opening caused by the death of one or more trees, is the dominant form
of disturbance in many forest systems worldwide. Gaps play an important role in forest …

Forest gap models, initially conceived in 1969 as a special case of individual-tree based
models, have become widely popular among forest ecologists for addressing a large …

Tree-ring dating (dendrochronology) is a method of scientific dating based on the analysis of
tree-ring growth patterns. As author James Speer notes, trees are remarkable bioindicators …

Although forest edges have been studied extensively as an important consequence of
fragmentation, a unifying theory of edge influence has yet to be developed. Our objective …

While most efforts at biodiversity conservation have focused primarily on protected areas
and reserves, the unprotected lands surrounding those area—the" matrix"—are equally …

The maintenance of the earth's biological diversity is widely seen as both necessary for
ecosystem health and aesthetically desirable. This book focuses on how biodiversity can be …

The maintenance of species diversity by treefall gaps is a long‐standing paradigm in forest
ecology. Gaps are presumed to provide an environment in which tree species of differing …

Small-scale gap disturbance in forests is reviewed. Caused by the death of individual or
multiple trees with subsequent fall from the canopy, gaps have been extensively studied in …

The European explorers who first visited the Northwest Coast of North America assumed
that the entire region was virtually untouched wilderness whose occupants used the land …

While the successional dynamics and large‐scale structure of Douglas‐fir forest in the
Pacific Northwest region is well studied, the fine‐scale spatial characteristics at the stand …