Understory vegetation dynamics of North American boreal forests

SA Hart, HYH Chen - Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Understory vegetation is the most diverse and least understood component of North
American boreal forests. Understory communities are important as they act as drivers of …

On the formation of dense understory layers in forests worldwide: consequences and implications for forest dynamics, biodiversity, and succession

AA Royo, WP Carson - Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 2006 - cdnsciencepub.com
The mechanistic basis underpinning forest succession is the gap-phase paradigm in which
overstory disturbance interacts with seedling and sapling shade tolerance to determine …

Effects of fire size and pattern on early succession in Yellowstone National Park

MG Turner, WH Romme, RH Gardner… - Ecological …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
The Yellowstone fires of 1988 affected> 250000 ha, creating a mosaic of burn severities
across the landscape and providing an ideal opportunity to study effects of fire size and …

Constraints to partial cutting in the boreal forest of Canada in the context of natural disturbance-based management: a review

AK Bose, BD Harvey, S Brais, M Beaudet, A Leduc - Forestry, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Over the last 25 years, greater understanding of natural dynamics in the boreal forest has
led to the integration of forest ecosystem management principles into forest policy of several …

Fire, climate change, carbon and fuel management in the Canadian boreal forest

BD Amiro, BJ Stocks, ME Alexander… - … Journal of Wildland …, 2001 - CSIRO Publishing
International Journal of Wildland Fire Page 1 P ublishing Address manuscripts and editorial
enquiries to: International Journal of Wildland Fire Editor in Chief Dr Gwynfor Richards …

Silvicultural disturbance severity and plant communities of the southern Canadian boreal forest

S Haeussler, L Bedford, A Leduc, Y Bergeron… - Silva …, 2002 - depositum.uqat.ca
Boreal forest ecosystems are adapted to periodic disturbance, but there is widespread
concern that conventional forest practises degrade plant communities. We examined …

Effects of wildfire and harvest disturbances on forest soil bacterial communities

NR Smith, BE Kishchuk, WW Mohn - Applied and Environmental …, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
Wildfires and harvesting are important disturbances to forest ecosystems, but their effects on
soil microbial communities are not well characterized and have not previously been …

Herbaceous understorey: an overlooked player in forest landscape dynamics?

T Thrippleton, H Bugmann, K Kramer-Priewasser… - Ecosystems, 2016 - Springer
Dense herbaceous understorey layers can impact tree regeneration and thereby affect forest
succession. However, the implications of this interaction on large spatial and temporal …

Where are the trees? Extent, configuration, and drivers of poor forest recovery 30 years after the 1988 Yellowstone fires

NG Kiel, MG Turner - Forest Ecology and Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Postfire recovery of fire-adapted forests remains uncertain as climate and fire regimes
continue to change. Areas of poor postfire tree regeneration following late-20th-century fires …

Plant diversity and tree responses following contrasting disturbances in boreal forest

DA Peltzer, ML Bast, SD Wilson, AK Gerry - Forest Ecology and …, 2000 - Elsevier
We determined the abundance and diversity of vascular plants in seven types of disturbance
in mixed-wood boreal forest. Disturbance treatments included wildfire, natural regeneration …