Forestry practices produce intense alterations on soil processes, which in turn could lead to more intense transformations of the system in relation to the availability of resources. From this point of view we conducted research in the critical Mediterranean environment of central Spain to check if length of time-rotation on chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) coppice stand allows recovery towards...

The oak (Quercus brantii Lindl.) semiarid forests of western Iran are among the oldest and host a remarkable diversity. However, originally high were largely converted to coppices submitted long history traditional management human disturbances. We investigated effect past forest structure on soil properties vegetation diversity two systems: coppice?with?standards stands abandoned after an inte...

The effects of girdling were analysed in a sessile oak (Quercus petraea Matts. Leibl.) forest with an 80-year-old coppice with standard structure in northern Spain. The study evaluated the viability of girdling as an alternative to felling trees during crown thinning. Eighty-four direct competitors of selected future crop trees were girdled by double notching and peeling. Three years after gird...

Shortleaf pine-oak-hickory woodlands provided the principal vegetation cover in the Tallahassee Red Hills prior to land clearing for plantation agriculture in the 19th century. Ample historical documentation and extant remnants of that community, including old-growth, support this conclusion. This woodland was maintained by surface fires and consisted principally of open stands of shortleaf pin...

Simulated rainfall was used to study infiltration rates and sediment production of28 plant communities and soils of five watershed areas in central and eastern Nevada. Two antecedent moisture conditions were used: soil initially air dry and initially at field capacity. InfiltratIOn rates and sediment production of the various soils are largely controlled by extent and surface morphology of dune...

Quercus pyrenaica-dominated forests are very widely distributed in Mediterranean ecosystems. Traditional forest use, such as coppicing to obtain firewood or livestock grazing under silvopastoral systems, and the current social abandonment of rural environment have given rise structures different ages at stages development. Thus, on one hand, there large areas Q. pyrenaica coppice systems that p...