Understory plant communities of boreal mixedwood forests in western Canada: Natural patterns and response to variable-retention harvesting

By S. Ellen Macdonald, Treena Fenniak. 2007

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A global view of aspen: Conservation science for widespread keystone systems (2020, background): “High levels of biodiversity, relative to the surrounding landscapes, have been recorded in both boreal seral (Macdonald and Fenniak 2007; Berger and Puettmann 2000; Legare et al. 2001) and parkland stable aspen communities (Grant and Berkey 1999).”
Satellite observations of high northern latitude vegetation productivity changes between 1982 and 2008: ecological variability and regional differences (2011, background): “…from evergreen-dominated to deciduous forest, or vice versa, would substantially alter albedo and evapotranspiration (Bala et al 2007, Bonan 2008, Shuman et al 2011) as well as profoundly alter ecological communities (Werner et al 2006, Macdonald and Fenniak 2007, WanneboNilsen et al 2010).”
Linking resource availability and heterogeneity to understorey species diversity through succession in boreal forest of Canada (2018, background): “…mixed- wood stands, which are characterized by greater heterogeneity in understorey resources (Bartels & Chen, 2010; Bartemucci, Messier, & Canham, 2006; Macdonald & Fenniak, 2007), and are generally more productive than conifer or broadleaf stands (Zhang, Chen, & Reich, 2012; Zhang et al., 2017).”