Group Opening Outcomes, Sustainable Forest Management, and the Menominee Nation Lands
| Autor: | Marshall Pecore, Christel C. Kern, Anthony Waupochick, Dean Fellman, Joseph Phillippi, Ronald Waukau, David L. Mausel, Angela Marsh, Manfred Schoelch, Paul Crocker |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
Yellow birch 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences biology Forest management Sustainable forest management Forestry Plant Science Ulmus americana biology.organism_classification 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Geography Forest ecology Sustainability Species richness Regeneration (ecology) 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Forestry. 115:416-424 |
| ISSN: | 0022-1201 |
| DOI: | 10.5849/jof.2016-092 |
| Popis: | Ideally, variants of single-tree, group, and patch selection create new, spatially aggregated age classes and maintain a diversity of tree species and sizes in multiaged, mixed-species forests. We explored this notion in northern hardwood forests on the Menominee Nation, a forest ecosystem without the exploitive cutting history of most forests in the western Great Lakes region. Although the outcomes suggested a lack of relationship between gap characteristics and tree density, the expectations for tree regeneration were largely met: gap tree densities were >600 stems/ac and predominantly composed of sugar maple (Acer saccharum), American elm (Ulmus americana), and yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis). Examination of stand diameter distributions indicate that gaps may not be necessary to establish regeneration on Menominee forests. To deepen the interpretation of our results, we include field and office discussions regarding the practicality of group openings when managing this forest. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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