The effects of forest management on plant species diversity in a Sierran conifer forest

By John J. Battles, Ayn J. Shlisky, R. Barrett, R. Heald, B. Allen-Diaz. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Arthropods as bioindicators of sustainable forest management, with a focus on plantation forests (2009, background): “Among terrestrial ecosystems, forests support the greatest global biodiversity (Battles et al., 2001; Lindenmayer et al., 2006), and thus the conservation of forest biodiversity is an important goal for forest management (Lindenmayer et al., 2000; Kremen, 2005; Junninen et al., 2007).”
Species richness in sugi (Cryptomeria japonica D. DON) plantations in southeastern Kyushu, Japan: the effects of stand type and age on understory trees and shrubs (2003, background): “Recently, several studies have revealed the influences of forest management on species diversity, mainly focusing on logging methods and changes in light environments as reviewed by Nagaike (2000) and Battles et al. (2001).”
Understory plant communities of boreal mixedwood forests in western Canada: Natural patterns and response to variable-retention harvesting (2007, background): “Like us, other studies have found that lower intensity harvesting treatments are better for conserving species that are shade tolerant, require moist conditions, or are considered late seral species (North et al., 1996; Hannerz and Hånell, 1997; Beese and Bryant, 1999; Battles et al., 2001).”
Group selection management in conifer forests: relationships between opening size and tree growth (2004, background): “Performance evaluations to date suggest that among the variety of silvicultural systems implemented in a management regime, group selection may provide qualitatively distinct combinations of relatively high species diversity and low exotic species abundance, similar to those found in nonharvested st”
Silviculture for old-growth attributes (2009, background): “Several studies showed that the degree of thinning related positively to the increase in understorey vegetation diversity and biomass (Harrington and Edwards, 1999; Battles et al., 2001; Elliot and Knoepp, 2005).”
A meta-analysis of the effect of forest management for timber on understory plant species diversity in temperate forests (2013, background): “Observed increases in understory plant diversity soon after (<20 years) clearcut harvesting may be a result of early successional colonizers (Jenkins and Parker, 1999; Battles et al., 2001; Brosofske et al., 2001; Moola and Vasseur, 2004; Kreyling et al., 2008; Loya and Jules, 2008).”
How resilient are northern hardwood forests to human disturbance? An evaluation using a plant functional group approach (2007, background): “Numerous studies in northern hardwood forests have addressed the impact of human disturbances on understory species composition (see �oberts & Gilliam, 200�) and diversity (see Battles et al., 2001).”
Biodiversity response to intensive biomass production from forest thinning in North American forests – A meta-analysis (2011, background): “f exotic species (Battles et al., 2001).”