Hasselquist, Niles
- University of California, Riverside (UCR)
To better understand how management and restoration practices influence the response of terrestrial ecosystems to large-scale disturbances, it is critical to study above- and belowground effects. In this study, we examined the immediate effect of a major hurricane on aboveground forest structure, arbuscular mycorrhizae ( AM) and belowground carbon pools in experimentally thinned plots in a tropical forest. The hurricane occurred five years after a thinning treatment, when thinned plots had similar aboveground carbon stocks but different forest structure compared to control plots. Thinned plots had more large diameter (>10 cm) trees compared to the control plots, which were characterized by a higher density of small diameter (
large-infrequent disturbance; restoration; mycorrhizae; forest architecture; rhizosphere; forest thinning; MODIS
Ecosystems
2010, volym: 13, nummer: 1, sidor: 118-128
Skogsvetenskap
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/99434