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• Relief for unemployed forest workers

  Author:Hazel WolfFrom:Monthly Review (Vol. 43, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 1992512 words Letter to the editor The efforts of environmentalists directed toward preservation of old-growth forests are well known. Less well known is their work on behalf of displaced timber industry personnel, which includes active support for...

• Ecological Importance of Large-Diameter Trees in a Temperate Mixed-Conifer Forest

  Authors:James A. Lutz, Andrew J. Larson, Mark E. Swanson, and James A. FreundFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 2, 201210,863 words Article 1560LAuthor(s): James A. Lutz 1 , * , Andrew J. Larson 2 , Mark E. Swanson 3 , James A. Freund 4 Introduction Large-diameter trees dominate the structure, dynamics, and function of many temperate and tropical forest...

• Effects of neighbours on crown length of Abies lasiocarpa and Picea engelmannii in two old-growth stands in British Columbia

  Authors:Joseph A. Antos, Roberta Parish, and Gordon D. NighFrom:Canadian Journal of Forest Research (Vol. 40, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20105,649 words Report Crown length is a key aspect of vertical structure in multi-aged, multistrata, mixed-species forests. Crown length, defined as the distance from the tree top to the lowest live branch whorl, was determined for 3169...

• SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY OF LIGHT AND WOODY SEEDLING REGENERATION IN TROPICAL WET FORESTS

  Authors:Adrienne B. Nicotra, Robin L. Chazdon, and Silvia V. B. IriarteFrom:Ecology (Vol. 80, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 199911,324 words Article Variation in forest canopy structure influences both understory light availability and its spatial distribution. Because light is a major environmental factor limiting growth and survival of many forest species, its...

• Assessing impacts of selective logging on water, energy, and carbon budgets and ecosystem dynamics in Amazon forests using the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator.

  Authors:Maoyi Huang, Yi Xu, Marcos Longo, Michael Keller, Ryan G. Knox, Charles D. Koven, et al.From:Biogeosciences (Vol. 17, Issue 20) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 19, 2020432 words Article Tropical forest degradation from logging, fire, and fragmentation not only alters carbon stocks and carbon fluxes, but also impacts physical land surface properties such as albedo and roughness length. Such impacts are...

• Interactive Effects of Nitrogen and Phosphorus on Soil Microbial Communities in a Tropical Forest

  Authors:Lei Liu, Tao Zhang, Frank S. Gilliam, Per Gundersen, Wei Zhang, Hao Chen, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 12, 20137,576 words Article 1500LElevated nitrogen (N) deposition in humid tropical regions may exacerbate phosphorus (P) deficiency in forests on highly weathered soils. However, it is not clear how P availability affects soil microbes and soil carbon...

• Incorporating interspecific competition into species-distribution mapping by upward scaling of small-scale model projections to the landscape

  Authors:Mark Baah-Acheamfour, Charles P.-A. Bourque, Fan-Rui Meng, and D. Edwin SwiftFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 16, 20176,149 words Report 1620LThere are a number of overarching questions and debate in the scientific community concerning the importance of biotic interactions in species distribution models at large spatial scales. In this paper, we present a...

• Mapping global forest age from forest inventories, biomass and climate data.

  Authors:Simon Besnard, Sujan Koirala, Maurizio Santoro, Ulrich Weber, Jacob Nelson, Jonas Gütter, et al.From:Earth System Science Data (Vol. 13, Issue 10) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 26, 2021388 words Brief article Forest age can determine the capacity of a forest to uptake carbon from the atmosphere. However, a lack of global diagnostics that reflect the forest stage and associated disturbance regimes hampers the quantification of...

• Losses in understory diversity over three decades in an old-growth cool-temperate forest in Michigan, USA

  Authors:Kerry D. Woods, David J. Hicks, and Jan SchultzFrom:Canadian Journal of Forest Research (Vol. 42, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20129,252 words Report 1530LAbstract: Diversity in temperate forests is concentrated in the understory, but understory dynamics are poorly understood for old-growth forests. We use repeated measurements of more than eight hundred 1 [m.sup.2] plots...

• Subfossil Leaves Reveal a New Upland Hardwood Component of the Pre-European Piedmont Landscape, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

  Authors:Sara J. Elliott, Peter Wilf, Robert C. Walter, and Dorothy J. MerrittsFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 13, 201317,808 words Article 1540LWidespread deforestation, agriculture, and construction of milldams by European settlers greatly influenced valley-bottom stream morphology and riparian vegetation in the northeastern USA. The former broad,...

• Accounting for Ecosystem Alteration Doubles Estimates of Conservation Risk in the Conterminous United States

  Authors:Randy Swaty, Kori Blankenship, Sarah Hagen, Joseph Fargione, Jim Smith, and Jeannie PattonFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 6, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 5, 20114,502 words Article 1550LPrevious national and global conservation assessments have relied on habitat conversion data to quantify conservation risk. However, in addition to habitat conversion to crop production or urban uses, ecosystem...

• A comparison of scientific and literary perceptions of pre-European settlement forests in Michigan

  Author:Carolyn A. CopenheaverFrom:Michigan Academician (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 20046,595 words Article 1500LABSTRACT In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans viewed pre-European settlement forests as untouched preserves of large trees and abundant wildlife. Scientists have been testing this view of...

• Case summaries

  From:Environmental Law (Vol. 41, Issue 3)

  Summer 201175,568 words Case overview 1920LI. ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY A. Federal Water Pollution Control Act 1. Akiak Native Community v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, 625 F.3d 1162 (9th Cir. 2010). Petitioner Akiak Native Community...

• Effects of topography, soil type and forest age on the frequency and size distribution of canopy gap disturbances in a tropical forest

  Authors:E. Lobo and J. W. DallingFrom:Biogeosciences (Vol. 10, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 1, 201326 words Brief article Byline: E. Lobo, J. W. Dalling To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this article, please visit this link:...

• Detecting tropical forest biomass dynamics from repeated airborne lidar measurements

  Authors:V. Meyer, S. S. Saatchi, J. Chave, J. W. Dalling, S. Bohlman, G. A. Fricker, et al.From:Biogeosciences (Vol. 10, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 14, 201342 words Brief article Byline: V. Meyer, S. S. Saatchi, J. Chave, J. W. Dalling, S. Bohlman, G. A. Fricker, C. Robinson, M. Neumann, S. Hubbell To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this article, please visit...

• Carbon stock estimation in an unmanaged old-growth forest: a case study from a broad-leaf deciduous forest in the Northwest of Italy/Estimation de stockage de carbone dans une vieilles foret: etude de cas sur une foret temperee decidue au nord-ouest de l'Italie/Estimacion de almacenamiento de carbono de un bosque de edad madura no manejados: un estudio de caso de un bosque caducifolio en el noreste de Italia

  Authors:M.U. Granata, L. Gratani, F. Bracco, F. Sartori, and R. CatoniFrom:International Forestry Review (Vol. 18, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 20166,151 words Report 1640LThe aim of the study was to evaluate the carbon storage capability of an unmanaged old-growth deciduous forest developing inside a Natural Reserve. Our research aims to emphasize how the conservative management, by...

• Diversity, distribution and dynamics of large trees across an old-growth lowland tropical rain forest landscape.

  Authors:David B. Clark, Antonio Ferraz, Deborah A. Clark, James R. Kellner, Susan G. Letcher, Sassan Saatchi, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 11, 20199,143 words Article 1560LLarge trees, here defined as [greater than or equal to]60 cm trunk diameter, are the most massive organisms in tropical rain forest, and are important in forest structure, dynamics and carbon cycling. The status of large...

• Effects of Experimental Nitrogen and Phosphorus Addition on Litter Decomposition in an Old-Growth Tropical Forest

  Authors:Hao Chen, Shaofeng Dong, Lei Liu, Chuan Ma, Tao Zhang, Xiaomin Zhu, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 12) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 31, 20136,338 words Article 1420LThe responses of litter decomposition to nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) additions were examined in an old-growth tropical forest in southern China to test the following hypotheses: (1) N addition would decrease litter...

• Evidence of Incipient Forest Transition in Southern Mexico

  Authors:Raul Abel Vaca, Duncan John Golicher, Luis Cayuela, Jenny Hewson, and Marc SteiningerFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 8, 201211,533 words Article 1450LCase studies of land use change have suggested that deforestation across Southern Mexico is accelerating. However, forest transition theory predicts that trajectories of change can be modified by economic factors,...

• Topographic Variation in Aboveground Biomass in a Subtropical Evergreen Broad-Leaved Forest in China

  Authors:Dunmei Lin, Jiangshan Lai, Helene C. Muller-Landau, Xiangcheng Mi, and Keping MaFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 10) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 30, 20127,294 words Article 1560LThe subtropical forest biome occupies about 25% of China, with species diversity only next to tropical forests. Despite the recognized importance of subtropical forest in regional carbon storage and cycling,...