Incorporating canopy gap-induced growth responses into spatially implicit growth model projections

Justin E. Arseneault and Mike R. Saunders

Ecological Modelling, 2012, vol. 237-238, 120-131

Abstract: Public land management across North America now incorporates multiple ecological and social values and has led to use of increasingly complex silvicultural systems, such as those designed to emulate natural disturbance regimes, in an effort to manage for this wider variety of objectives. In the eastern United States and Canada, canopy gap-based silvicultural systems are often used to promote and sustain intra-stand variability in temporal and spatial patterns. These are difficult to model in many of the region's growth and yield models, with the inherent intra-stand variability tenuously assumed to have negligible effects on stand responses despite increasing evidence to the contrary.

Keywords: Forest Vegetation Simulator; Edge effects; Natural disturbance-based silvicultural systems; Intra-stand variability; Canopy gaps; Acadian Forest Ecosystem Research Program (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.04.003

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