Title
Influence of post-harvest silviculture on understory vegetation - Implications for forage in a multi-ungulate system
Author(s)
Boan JJ
Published
2011
Publisher
Forest Ecology and Management
Abstract
Natural disturbance emulation has emerged as a key management approach to maintaining biodiversity in logged boreal forests. Forest managers’ success in emulating understory forest ecosystem functions, e.g., for the provision of habitat even for large mammals, has not been tested due, in many cases, to incomplete records of silviculture (forest management practices). This study examines regenerating areas of previously conifer-dominated forests in northwestern Ontario, Canada, 10 and 30 years after logging and 10 and 30 years after fire to test if understory development and moose (Alces alces) forage abundance differed between the two disturbance types and artificial or natural regeneration approaches.
Full Citation
Boan JJ, McLaren BE, and Malcolm JR. 2011. Influence of post-harvest silviculture on understory vegetation: Implications for forage in a multi-ungulate system. Forest Ecology and Management 262: 1704-1712. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2011.07.022.

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