Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6542246 | Forest Ecology and Management | 2016 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
Our results emphasize the importance of including both individual tree age and disturbance legacies to accurately characterize biomass dynamics and trajectories in forest ecosystems. Importantly, the period of time that a tree is in the canopy, and not tree age, modulates the trajectory of tree level AGBI. Growth rates begin to decline after â¼30Â years (tree-rings width) and â¼100Â years (AGBI) in the canopy. We demonstrate that even late-seral forests can rapidly regain biomass lost to low intensity disturbance.
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Authors
Volodymyr Trotsiuk, Miroslav Svoboda, Pascale Weber, Neil Pederson, Stefan Klesse, Pavel Janda, Dario Martin-Benito, Martin Mikolas, Meelis Seedre, Radek Bace, Lenka Mateju, David Frank,