Causes and Consequences of Species Diversity in Forest Ecosystems 

 -  MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute  2019 
 - 1 online resource (272 p.) 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Creative Commons 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783039213092 9783039213108 books978-3-03921-310-8 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.3390/books978-3-03921-310-8  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Geography
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>abundance assemblage lineage diversity biodiversity Biodiversity Exploratories Bray-Curtis canopy structure China climate climate change Climatic change codispersion analysis competition and facilitation disturbance severity diversity elevational shifts Ericaceae evolutionary diversity excess nitrogen Fagus sylvatica forest conversion forest management gamma diversity herbaceous layer herbaceous perennial species household respondents Hubbard Brook human footprint individual species-area relationship landscape scale legacies Maxent microarthropod mid-domain effect mountains natural disturbance-based silviculture northern hardwood forests phylogenetic diversity Picea abies Pinus sylvestris potential habitats precipitation productivity Pseudotsuga menziesii questionnaire survey Salicaceae salvage logging salvaging seasonal variations Shannon diversity Simpson diversity Smithsonian ForestGEO spatial analysis spatial patterns species conservation species diversity species richness species-area relationship stand development structural complexity succession temperate forests temperature TILD topography tornado tree regeneration tree species tree species diversity trees tropical evergreen mixed forest trunk breakage understory plant communities United States uprooting USDA Forest Service variation partitioning Vietnam wind damage windthrow woody species