Understory Vegetation Dynamics of North American Boreal Forests

By S. Hart, Han Y. H. Chen. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Citations in the corpus

Importance of mixedwoods for biodiversity conservation: Evidence for understory plants, songbirds, soil fauna, and ectomycorrhizae in northern forests (2011, background): “The existence of a compositional gradient from early to later successional forests has been well documented for the boreal (Carleton and Maycock 1980, 1981; Bergeron and Dubuc 1989; De Grandpré et al. 1993; Tonteri 1994; Bergeron 2000; Uotila and Kouki 2005; Hart and Chen 2006; Kembel and Dale 2006)”
Canopy effects on vegetation caused by harvesting and regeneration treatments (2010, background): “…relationship between diversity and abundance of tree species within and between the canopy and understorey has been investigated (Beatty 1984; Jennings et al. 1999; Harrington et al. 2003; Aubert et al. 2004; Balandier et al. 2006; Hart and Chen 2006) and reviewed (Barbier et al. 2008) many times.”
Linking resource availability and heterogeneity to understorey species diversity through succession in boreal forest of Canada (2018, background): “…diversity are expected to be strongly influenced by stand age as a consequence of dispersal limitation (vegetation requiring time to colonize available resources following the disturbance), and due to changes in resource availability that track stand development (Hart & Chen, 2006) (Figure 1).”
Influence of Environmental Variability on Root Dynamics in Northern Forests (2009, background): “Obviously in nature, the situation is more complex than our simplified example, as both naturally and artificially regenerated stands often have many more species co-existing on the same site (Chen and Popadiouk, 2002; Brassard and Chen, 2006; Hart and Chen, 2006; Hart and Chen, 2008; Chen et al., 2”
Herbaceous Understorey: An Overlooked Player in Forest Landscape Dynamics? (2016, background): “Including herbaceous understorey in the simulations slightly enhanced the understorey effect on the tree overstorey, although it was relatively small (Figure 6, difference between ‘tree biomass—no herb layer’ and ‘tree biomass—with herb layer’).”
Understorey diversity in southern boreal forests is regulated by productivity and its indirect impacts on resource availability and heterogeneity (2012, background): “…other hypothesized drivers, such as disturbance (Wardle et al. 1997; Rees & Juday 2002; Haeussler & Bergeron 2004;Kembell, Wang & Dang 2005; Jonsson &Wardle 2010), time since disturbance (Hart & Chen 2006, 2008), or meso- and macroscale environment (Legare et al. 2001; Chipman & Johnson 2002).”