Occurrence of the Leafy Liverwort, Frullania bolanderi, in Old-Growth Forests of Northeastern North America

1998 ◽  
Vol 125 (2) ◽  
pp. 109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norton G. Miller ◽  
Andrew D. Miller
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Old Growth ◽  
Northeastern North America ◽  
Old Growth Forests ◽  
Leafy Liverwort

Multi‐decade tree mortality in temperate old‐growth forests of Europe and North America: Non‐equilibrial dynamics and species‐individualistic response to disturbance

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry D. Woods ◽  
Thomas A. Nagel ◽  
Bogdan Brzeziecki ◽  
C. Mark Cowell ◽  
Dejan Firm ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Tree Mortality ◽  
Old Growth ◽  
Old Growth Forests

scholarly journals Forestry-Wildlife: Whither the Future

1976 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 147-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. L. Bunnell
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Old Growth ◽  
The Future ◽  
Old Growth Forests

Conditions in areas with higher ratios of people to trees than North America suggest changes in North American perspectives of forestry-wildlife relations. These conditions, as they were presented at a recent IUFRO meeting, are summarized. Implications of these conditions for North America are that our forestry-wildlife problems will acquire an increasing social dimension, while solutions will become increasingly varied and complex. The old-growth forests still present in North America will permit a degree of flexibility in management now lacking in much of Europe.

The maintenance of understory residual flora with even-aged forest management: A review of temperate forests in northeastern North America

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (NA) ◽  
pp. 141-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
F.M. Moola ◽  
L. Vasseur
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
North America ◽  
Vascular Plant ◽  
Old Growth ◽  
Northeastern North America ◽  
European Colonization ◽  
Successional Forests ◽  
Clearcut Logging ◽  
Intensively Managed ◽  
Residual Plants

This study reviews the effects of even-aged forest management (primarily clearcut logging) on the dynamics, structure, and composition of understory vascular plant communities in remnant late-successional (old-growth and old re-growth) forests of northeastern North America. Less than 1% of forested land in the region has never been cleared and remnant patches of primary woodland (i.e., continuously forested since European colonization; ~350 BP) are few, small and isolated within a second-growth landscape that is increasingly managed in open and immature forest age-classes. The historical loss and fragmentation of pre-settlement forested habitat has generated considerable scientific and public debate about whether additional declines in late-successional woodland, as a result of contemporary land uses (e.g., clearcut logging), threaten species that are associated with old forest conditions. We focused particular attention on residual plants (i.e., flora associated with late-successional forests) that may be dependent upon older stand conditions for maximal growth or that are less common within intensively managed landscapes. Despite a general community-wide resiliency to clearcutting, we found that a number of residual plants in northeastern forests are typically eliminated or have a reduced presence in recovering stands after logging (e.g., Oxalis montana (L.), Aralia nudicaulis (L.), Taxus candensis (Marsh.)). The most sensitive species to clearcutting include mycotrophs, taxa with limited seed dispersal and (or) low rates of clonal expansion (<10 cm/year), and species reliant on specific seedbed conditions associated with older forests (e.g., decayed logs). These results suggest that the preservation of remnant late-successional forests (both old-growth and old re-growth) may be necessary for the maintenance of some residual plant populations in highly disturbed and fragmented forest landscapes in the northeastern North America.

scholarly journals Arthropod Diversity and Functional Importance in Old-Growth Forests of North America

Forests ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Schowalter
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Functional Importance ◽  
Old Growth ◽  
Arthropod Diversity ◽  
Old Growth Forests

scholarly journals Structural Attributes of Old-Growth and Partially Harvested Northern White-Cedar Stands in Northeastern North America

Forests ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Wesely ◽  
Shawn Fraver ◽  
Laura Kenefic ◽  
Aaron Weiskittel ◽  
Jean-Claude Ruel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Old Growth ◽  
Northeastern North America ◽  
White Cedar ◽  
Northern White Cedar

Northwest Forest Plan–the first 15 years (1994–2008): status and trends of late-successional and old-growth forests

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melinda Moeur ◽  
Janet L. Ohmann ◽  
Robert E. Kennedy ◽  
Warren B. Cohen ◽  
Matthew J. Gregory ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Old Growth ◽  
Status And Trends ◽  
Old Growth Forests ◽  
Northwest Forest Plan

Alternatives to clearcutting in the old-growth forests of southeast Alaska: study plan and establishment report.

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael H. McClellan ◽  
Douglas N. Swanston ◽  
Paul E. Hennon ◽  
Robert L. Deal ◽  
Toni L. de Santo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Old Growth ◽  
Southeast Alaska ◽  
Old Growth Forests ◽  
Study Plan
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