Herb-Layer Dynamics in an Old-Growth Forest: Vegetation–Environment Relationships and Response to Invasion-Related Perturbations

Flux partitioning in an old-growth forest: seasonal and interannual dynamics.

Turbulent fluxes of carbon, water and energy were measured at the Wind River Canopy Crane, Washington, USA from 1999 to 2004 with eddy-covariance instrumentation above (67 m) and below (2.5 m) the forest canopy. Here we present the decomposition of net ecosystem exchange of carbon (NEE) into gross primary productivity (GPP), ecosystem respiration (R(eco)) and tree canopy net CO(2) exchange (Del...

Multidecadal stability in tropical rain forest structure and dynamics across an old-growth landscape

Have tropical rain forest landscapes changed directionally through recent decades? To answer this question requires tracking forest structure and dynamics through time and across within-forest environmental heterogeneity. While the impacts of major environmental gradients in soil nutrients, climate and topography on lowland tropical rain forest (TRF) structure and function have been extensively...

Fire and gap dynamics over 300 years in an old-growth temperate forest

McEwan, R.W. (corresponding author, [email protected]) & Hruska, A. ([email protected]): Department of Biology, The University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, 45469, USA Pederson, N. ([email protected]), Cooper, A. ([email protected]) & Taylor, J: Department of Biological Sciences, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY, 40475, USA Watts, R. ([email protected]): Division of Natur...

Disturbance history and climate response in an old-growth hemlock-white pine forest, central Pennsylvania

Multi-decade biomass dynamics in an old-growth hemlock-northern hardwood forest, Michigan, USA

Trends in living aboveground biomass and inputs to the pool of coarse woody debris (CWD) in an undisturbed, old-growth hemlock-northern hardwood forest in northern MI were estimated from multi-decade observations of permanent plots. Growth and demographic data from seven plot censuses over 47 years (1962-2009), combined with one-time measurement of CWD pools, help assess biomass/carbon status o...