Forest and woodland stand structural complexity: Its definition and measurement

By C. McElhinny, Phillip B. Gibbons, Cris Brack, Jürgen Bauhus. 2005

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Subfields: Insect Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Identifying practical indicators of biodiversity for stand-level management of plantation forests (2008, background): “However, quantification of stand structure can be difficult due to its multivariate nature (McElhinny et al. 2005).”
Arthropods as bioindicators of sustainable forest management, with a focus on plantation forests (2009, background): “Arthropod bioindicators could also be used to infer overall forest biodiversity (Ferris and Humphrey, 1999; Lindenmayer and McCarthy, 2002) in place of structural indicators, which are often difficult to assess because they have no strict bounds (McElhinny et al., 2005).”
Assessment of Forest Structure Using Two UAV Techniques: A Comparison of Airborne Laser Scanning and Structure from Motion (SfM) Point Clouds (2016, background): “Forest structure refers to the spatial arrangement of the components of a forest ecosystem, and describes properties such as the horizontal and vertical distribution and abundance of vegetative elements [1].”
Suitability of close-to-nature silviculture for adapting temperate European forests to climate change (2014, background): “…to increasing the variation in tree size classes at the stand level, structural diversity, which encompasses more than variation in tree dimensions (McElhinny et al., 2005), may be increased through a variety of other measures such as specific retention of structural elements aimed to maintain…”
Modelling tree size diversity from airborne laser scanning using canopy height models with image texture measures (2013, methodology): “Several indices that are widely used or have been evaluated for quantifying TSD include the coefficient of variation of tree height, standard deviation of tree height, Gini Coefficient, and Shannon Index (Latham et al., 1998; McElhinny et al., 2005; Barbeito et al., 2009).”
Characterization of the structure, dynamics, and productivity of mixed-species stands: review and perspectives (2015, methodology): “The most common index is the number of large trees, sometimes called number of old-growth trees (Barbati et al. 2012), by using a threshold diameter to define large trees ranging from dbh [ 65 cm to dbh [ 100 cm (McElhinny et al. 2005) or specifying a threshold by species (Alberdi et al. 2013).”