Causes and Consequences of Species Diversity in Forest Ecosystems

• Main Author: Gilliam, Frank S. (auth)
• Other Authors: Ellison, Aaron M. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: Geography; gamma diversity; tree species; Climatic change; individual species-area relationship; woody species; TILD; trees; Pseudotsuga menziesii; windthrow; precipitation; species conservation; spatial analysis; codispersion analysis; variation partitioning; herbaceous perennial species; northern hardwood forests; climate change; stand development; potential habitats; Smithsonian ForestGEO; tree regeneration; forest conversion; Biodiversity Exploratories; trunk breakage; topography; questionnaire survey; mid-domain effect; assemblage lineage diversity; Salicaceae; salvaging; temperate forests; Shannon diversity; USDA Forest Service; tree species diversity; Bray-Curtis; species-area relationship; Ericaceae; legacies; Picea abies; herbaceous layer; spatial patterns; mountains; United States; wind damage; abundance; Hubbard Brook; elevational shifts; uprooting; species diversity; evolutionary diversity; Pinus sylvestris; natural disturbance-based silviculture; Vietnam; diversity; Maxent; human footprint; productivity; China; microarthropod; phylogenetic diversity; temperature; household respondents; succession; biodiversity; tornado; salvage logging; excess nitrogen; climate; forest management; understory plant communities; Simpson diversity; species richness; landscape scale; structural complexity; tropical evergreen mixed forest; seasonal variations; disturbance severity; competition and facilitation; canopy structure; Fagus sylvatica
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Summary

What are the causes and consequences of species diversity in forested ecosystems, and how is this species diversity being affected by rapid environmental and climatic change, movement of invertebrate and vertebrate herbivores into new biogeographic regions, and expanding human populations and associated shifts in land-use patterns? In this book, we explore these questions for assemblages of forest trees, shrubs, and understory herbs at spatial scales ranging from small plots to large forest dynamics plots, at temporal scales ranging from seasons to centuries, in both temperate and tropical regions, and across rural-to-urban gradients in land use.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (272 p.)

ISBN

books978-3-03921-310-8
9783039213092
9783039213108

Access

Open Access