Understory vegetation dynamics 15 years post-thinning in 50-year-old Douglas-fir and Douglas-fir/western hemlock stands in western Oregon, USA

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• 作者：Elizabeth Cole ; ^{liz.cole@oregonstate.edu} ; Michael Newton ^{mike.newton@oregonstate.edu} ; John D. Bailey ^{john.bailey@oregonstate.edu}
• 关键词：Late-seral habitat ; Vegetation management ; Vegetative cover ; Plant diversity ; Structural diversity
• 刊名：Forest Ecology and Management
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：15 January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：384
• 期：Complete
• 页码：358-370
• 全文大小：1017 K
• 卷排序：384

文摘

Thinning increased forb cover initially. Shrub cover increased after thinning. Continuous canopy layer had not developed after fifteen years. Effects of understory spraying were still evident after fifteen years at one site. Abundant natural regeneration of western hemlock was affecting vegetation development at one site.