Characteristics of snags and forest structure in southern mistbelt forests of the Amatole region, South Africa
| Autor: | Adam Shuttleworth, Amy-Leigh Wilson, Meyrick B. Bowker, Colleen T. Downs |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0106 biological sciences
Podocarpus biology Ecology 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Species diversity biology.organism_classification 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Snag Geography Abundance (ecology) Cape Forest ecology Forest structure Secondary forest Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics |
| Zdroj: | African Journal of Ecology. 55:518-529 |
| ISSN: | 0141-6707 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/aje.12382 |
| Popis: | Standing dead trees (or snags) are an important component of forest ecosystems, especially for tree cavity-nesting vertebrate species, but their prevalence in South African forests remains under studied. Consequently, we investigated forest structure, and the presence and abundance of snags in six southern mistbelt forests in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. These forests have had varying levels of timber extraction over the past 150 years or more. We found snags were relatively rare in all six forests ( |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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