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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 ...
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 ...
Diversity and composition of understory vegetation in the tropical seasonal rain forest of Xishuangbanna, SW China
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2011)
Characterization of Nothofagus pumilio (Lenga) understory in managed and unmanaged forests of central Patagonia, Argentina
(Soc Amer Foresters, 2017-04)
In managed forests, biodiversity conservation is crucial for the sustainable use of ecosystem resources. In the Patagonian-Andes forests of Argentina, lenga (Nothofagus pumilio) is the most important native tree because ...
Understory plant diversity assessment of Eucalyptus plantation over three vegetation type in Yunnan, China
(Springer, 2011-01)
Biodiversity in managed plantations has become an important issue for long-term sustainability of ecosystems. The environmental effects of plantations comprised of fast-growing introduced trees have been vigorously debated. ...
Impact of introduced herbivores on understory vegetation along a regional moisture gradient in Patagonian beech forests
(Elsevier Science, 2016-04)
Introduced ungulates can alter understory structure and composition posing a serious threat to forest biodiversity. Yet how large-herbivore impacts in forested regions vary along major environmental gradients remains little ...
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 ...