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The influence of canopy-layer composition on understory plant diversity in southern temperate forests
(Springer, 2017-05)
Background Understory plants represents the largest component of biodiversity in most forest ecosystems and plays a key role in forest functioning. Despite their importance, the influence of overstory-layer composition on ...
Drought-induced mortality affects understory vegetation: release after death
(Springer Tokyo, 2012-07)
In recent decades, severe droughts have become an important cause of canopy disturbance in forests, and have shown potential to cause rapid and pronounced vegetation shifts. Under dead canopy, undamaged understory could ...
Abundance and movement of understory birds in a maulino forest fragmented by pine plantations
(SPRINGER, 2006-11)
Understory birds are especially vulnerable to habitat fragmentation because of the reduction in habitat quality and bird movement. We study the separate effects of understory, overstory and landscape on four understory ...
Does understory clutter reduce bat activity in forestry pine plantations?
(Springer, 2015)
Forestry plantations supporting native species
exhibit a dense understory, which might reduce bat
activity within plantations. We compared bat activity in
Monterrey pine plantations with and without an understory
in ...
Converting clear cutting into a less hostile habitat: The importance of understory for the abundance and movement of the Chestnut-throated Huet-Huet (Pteroptochos castaneus: Rhinocryptidae)
(Elsevier, 2017)
Sustainable forest management of commercial monoculture plantations may be difficult to achieve in plantations of Monterrey pine because these commercial monocultures are managed under a clear cutting system, where the ...
Linking forest structure and composition: Avian diversity in successional forests of Chiloé Island, Chile
(2005)
We show how Chilean forest bird species richness, abundance and guild structure changes as a function of structural properties of forest stands. We surveyed bird assemblages in two old-growth (>200 years), two ...
Diversity of understory birds in old stands of native and Eucalyptus plantations
(2015-01-01)
We compared the vegetation structure between old (>70 year) stands of planted diversified native forests and stands of Eucalyptus tereticornis embedded in a mosaic of Eucalyptus stands. We then tested for differences in ...
Enhancing avifauna in commercial plantations: Research note
(2010)
The occurrence of fauna in commercial plantations is often associated with structural complexity. Through a meta-analysis, we tested whether the structural complexity of plantations could enhance bird species assemblages ...
Conservation value of timber quality versus associated non-timber quality stands for understory diversity in Nothofagus forests
(Springer, 2008-02-08)
Conservation strategies of forested landscapes must consider biodiversity of the included site types, i.e. timber-quality forests and associated non-timber-quality stands. The objectives were to characterize forest overstory ...
Can oil palm plantations become bird friendly?
(SPRINGER, 2010-10)
Despite the increasing claims that structural complexity in agroforestry plantations is a key variable for enhancing bird biodiversity, few studies have experimentally manipulated the understory component of structural ...