Multiple successional pathways and precocity in forest development: can some forests be born complex?

By D. Donato, J. Campbell, Janet Franklin. 2012

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Large‐scale bioenergy from additional harvest of forest biomass is neither sustainable nor greenhouse gas neutral (2012, background): “It is possible that succession following disturbance can lead to young stands that have functional complexity analogous to that of old forests; however, this successional pathway would likely occur only under natural succession (Donato et al., 2011).”
Spatial patterns of ponderosa pine regeneration in high-severity burn patches (2017, unknown): “Re-generation spatial patterns should be considered when planning restoration treatments, or to better predict the spatial structure of forest development (Larson and Churchill, 2012; Donato et al., 2012).”
Historical Contingency in Community Assembly: Integrating Niches, Species Pools, and Priority Effects (2015, background): “Second, communities may enter alternative transient states (Figure 3a) while undergoing multiple pathways of succession (Donato et al. 2012, Fastie 1995).”
High and dry: post‐fire tree seedling establishment in subalpine forests decreases with post‐fire drought and large stand‐replacing burn patches (2016, result): “…in the Pacific Northwest United States; see Freund et al ., 2014), but our data support one aspect of precocious complexity in forest structure (Donato et al ., 2012) in that early and late successional dominants (e.g. lodgepole pine and subalpine fir) are present immediately after a…”