Gap dynamics of forest trees: A review with particular attention to boreal forests
By J. Mccarthy. 2001
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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Insect Science
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- Causes and implications of the correlation between forest productivity and tree mortality rates (2011, background): “The limited available data suggest that gap formation rates are higher in tropical angiosperm forests than in temperate gymnosperm forests (McCarthy 2001), but rates of forest development within gaps (and presumably succession from shade-intolerant to shade-tolerant species) are almost certainly…”
- Effects of Gap-Size Classes on Long-Term Litter Decomposition Rates of Beech, Oak and Chestnut Species at High Elevations in Northeast Turkey (2008, background): “…insect damage, illegal cutting, or logging in forests can change environmental conditions, which can retard or accelerate litter decomposition through negative or positive effects on the activity of organisms (Zhang and Zak 1995, 1998; McCarthy 2001; Prescott 2002; Prescott and others 2003).”
- Changing importance of habitat structure across multiple spatial scales for three species of insects (2003, background): “The structure of peatlands and the surrounding matrix of coniferous-dominated boreal forest have changed very little from 1985 to 1999 (McCarthy 2001).”
- Natural forest dynamics in boreal Fennoscandia: a review and classification (2011, methodology): “…openings, often forming distinct patches in the forest, and are usually the result of allogenic, at times catastrophic, disturbances, whereas gap dynamics typically arise from tree senescent-related autogenic disturbance factors such as fungi and insects (Hytteborn et al. 1991, McCarthy 2001).”
- On the formation of dense understory layers in forests worldwide: consequences and implications for forest dynamics, biodiversity, and succession (2006, background): “…processes that occur after major disturbances, particu- larly species recruitment, growth, survivorship, and turnover (Watt 1947; Bray 1956; Runkle 1981; 1982, Uhl et al. 1988; Houle 1990; Oliver and Larson 1996; Marks and Gardescu 1998; Greene et al. 1999; Antos et al. 2000; McCarthy 2001; Can.”
- Canopy gaps in an old-growth fir-beech forest remnant of Western Carpathians (2010, background): “According to recent studies, it is currently acknowledged that also boreal forests follow a more complex disturbance patterns ranging from large stand-replacing disturbances to small-scale gap dynamics (McCarthy 2001; Angelstam and Kuuluvainen 2004).”
- Age and size structure of gap-dynamic, old-growth boreal forest stands in Newfoundland (2006, background): “Live tree ages for all species, except white birch (Betula papyrifera Marsh), ranged from 25 to 269 years, and were characterized by all-age frequency distributions.”
- Trees dying standing in the northeastern boreal old-growth forests of Quebec: spatial patterns, rates, and temporal variation (2007, background): “However, recent studies have demonstrated the importance of small-scale local disturbances in boreal forests (Kuuluvainen 1994; McCarthy 2001).”
- Many ways to die – partitioning tree mortality dynamics in a near‐natural mixed deciduous forest (2013, background): “First, in the context of carbon sequestration because they contain a lot of biomass and continue to grow up to late ages (Wirth 2009) and also in the context of biodiversity research because large trees that die function as gapmakers for regeneration (McCarthy 2001; Hurst et al. 2011).”