A long-term study of tree seedling recruitment in southern Appalachian forests: the effects of canopy gaps and shrub understories

By Brian Beckage, James S. Clark, B. Clinton, B. Haines. 2000

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Recruitment patterns following a severe drought: long-term compositional shifts in Patagonian forests (2008, background): “Other studies have simulated drought effects using herbicides on canopy vegetation (Beckage et al. 2000; Clinton 2003).”
Historic disturbance regimes promote tree diversity only under low browsing regimes in eastern deciduous forest (2013, methodology): “However, in one of the few experimental tests of the effect of gap creation on forest diversity, Beckage et al. (2000) reported that ‘‘intermediate-sized’’ gaps (;300-m2 expanded gaps, slightly smaller than ours) did not promote diversity of tree regeneration compared to undisturbed forest.”
IMPLICATIONS OF SEED BANKING FOR RECRUITMENT OF SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN WOODY SPECIES (2005, background): “…mortality at early life history stages is prevalent among temperate forest tree species (Streng et al. 1989, Jones et al. 1994, Hille Ris Lambers et al. 2002), as are spatially and temporally varying abiotic factors that affect recruitment (Burton and Bazzaz 1991, Beckage et al. 2000).”
Changes in forest structure and species composition following invasion by a non-indigenous shrub, Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) (2008, background): “Beckage et al. (2000) found that seedling recruitment and understory light levels did not increase beneath Rhododendron maximum shrubs during a four-year period following large gap creation via overstory tree removal.”
NEIGHBORHOOD ANALYSES OF SMALL‐MAMMAL DYNAMICS: IMPACTS ON SEED PREDATION AND SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT (2004, background): “Increased seedling recruitment after a mast-seeding event is well known (Jensen 1985, Schupp 1990, Beckage et al. 2000, Connell and Green 2000, Vila and Lloret 2000), and is often interpreted as an illustration of the importance of seed predation and predator satiation for seedling recruitment.”
Impact of the invasive shrub glossy buckthorn (Rhamnus frangula L.) on juvenile recruitment by canopy trees (2004, background): “(Beckage et al., 2000; Baker and Van Lear, 1998), vine maple (Acer circinatum Pursh: Wardman and Schmidt, 1998), and bamboo (Chusquea spp.”
SEEDLING SURVIVAL AND GROWTH OF THREE FOREST TREE SPECIES: THE ROLE OF SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY (2003, background): “Interactions between heterogeneity in the forest overstory (e.g., gap or closed canopy) and understory microenvironments may affect seedling performance, subsequent community composition, and the potential for species coexistence (Beckage et al. 2000, Heinemann et al. 2000).”
Hemlock woolly adelgid in the southern Appalachians: Control strategies, ecological impacts, and potential management responses (2013, background): “Some of these limitations on regeneration may be minimized if the standing dead hemlock trees create canopy gaps as they fall (Beckage et al., 2000).”
CHANGING THE GAP DYNAMICS PARADIGM: VEGETATIVE REGENERATION CONTROL ON FOREST RESPONSE TO DISTURBANCE (2008, background): “In contrast, single-tree gaps often close due to lateral ingrowth; seedling recruitment is minimal (Beckage et al. 2000), and it may take multiple gap cycles for understory trees to reach the canopy (Runkle 1990).”
On the formation of dense understory layers in forests worldwide: consequences and implications for forest dynamics, biodiversity, and succession (2006, background): “Finally, if canopy gaps do form, they may not operate as gaps at all if seedlings remain trapped beneath a dense understory layer (Beckage et al. 2000; Lusk 2001; Webb and Scanga 2001).”
Ecology and silviculture of silver fir (Abies alba Mill.): a review (2017, background): “Silver fir establishment and juvenile growth depend on seedbed features (Grunda 1972), competition of forest floor vegetation (Jaworski 1973) or competition from the understory (Beckage et al. 2000).”