Causes and Consequences of Species Diversity in Forest Ecosystems
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ArticlePublication details: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019Description: 1 electronic resource (272 p.)Content type: - text
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- 9783039213092
- 9783039213108
- Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning
- Geography
- Biodiversity Exploratories
- Bray-Curtis
- China
- Climatic change
- Ericaceae
- Fagus sylvatica
- Hubbard Brook
- Maxent
- Picea abies
- Pinus sylvestris
- Pseudotsuga menziesii
- Salicaceae
- Shannon diversity
- Simpson diversity
- Smithsonian ForestGEO
- TILD
- USDA Forest Service
- United States
- Vietnam
- abundance
- assemblage lineage diversity
- biodiversity
- canopy structure
- climate
- climate change
- codispersion analysis
- competition and facilitation
- disturbance severity
- diversity
- elevational shifts
- evolutionary diversity
- excess nitrogen
- forest conversion
- forest management
- gamma diversity
- herbaceous layer
- herbaceous perennial species
- household respondents
- human footprint
- individual species-area relationship
- landscape scale
- legacies
- microarthropod
- mid-domain effect
- mountains
- natural disturbance-based silviculture
- northern hardwood forests
- phylogenetic diversity
- potential habitats
- precipitation
- productivity
- questionnaire survey
- salvage logging
- salvaging
- seasonal variations
- spatial analysis
- spatial patterns
- species conservation
- species diversity
- sp
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What are the causes and consequences of species diversity in forested ecosystems, and how is this species diversity being affected by rapid environmental and climatic change, movement of invertebrate and vertebrate herbivores into new biogeographic regions, and expanding human populations and associated shifts in land-use patterns? In this book, we explore these questions for assemblages of forest trees, shrubs, and understory herbs at spatial scales ranging from small plots to large forest dynamics plots, at temporal scales ranging from seasons to centuries, in both temperate and tropical regions, and across rural-to-urban gradients in land use.
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