Forest ecology: recent advances in plant ecology

Xianping Zhang, Mengben Wang, Xiaoming Liang (auth.), A. G. Van der Valk (eds.)9048127947, 9789048127948, 9789048127955

This volume provides an overview of recent advances in forest ecology on a variety of topics, including species diversity and the factors that control species diversity, environmental factors controlling distribution of forests, impacts of disturbances on forests (fires, drought, hurricane), reproduction ecology of both trees and understory species, and spatial organization of forests.

Previously published in Plant Ecology, Volume 201, No.1, 2009.

Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages I-V
Quantitative classification and carbon density of the forest vegetation in Lüliang Mountains of China….Pages 1-9
Effects of introduced ungulates on forest understory communities in northern Patagonia are modified by timing and severity of stand mortality….Pages 11-22
Tree species richness and composition 15 years after strip clear-cutting in the Peruvian Amazon….Pages 23-37
Changing relationships between tree growth and climate in Northwest China….Pages 39-50
Does leaf-level nutrient-use efficiency explain Nothofagus -dominance of some tropical rain forests in New Caledonia?….Pages 51-66
Dendroecological study of a subalpine fir ( Abies fargesii ) forest in the Qinling Mountains, China….Pages 67-75
A conceptual model of sprouting responses in relation to fire damage: an example with cork oak ( Quercus suber L.) trees in Southern Portugal….Pages 77-85
Non-woody life-form contribution to vascular plant species richness in a tropical American forest….Pages 87-99
Relationships between spatial configuration of tropical forest patches and woody plant diversity in northeastern Puerto Rico….Pages 101-113
Vascular diversity patterns of forest ecosystem before and after a 43-year interval under changing climate conditions in the Changbaishan Nature Reserve, northeastern China….Pages 115-130
Gap-scale disturbance processes in secondary hardwood stands on the Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee, USA….Pages 131-146
Plurality of tree species responses to drought perturbation in Bornean tropical rain forest….Pages 147-167
Red spruce forest regeneration dynamics across a gradient from Acadian forest to old field in Greenwich, Prince Edward Island National Park, Canada….Pages 169-180
Distance- and density-dependent seedling mortality caused by several diseases in eight tree species co-occurring in a temperate forest….Pages 181-196
Response of native Hawaiian woody species to lava-ignited wildfires in tropical forests and shrublands….Pages 197-209
Evaluating different harvest intensities over understory plant diversity and pine seedlings, in a Pinus pinaster Ait. natural stand of Spain….Pages 211-220
Land-use history affects understorey plant species distributions in a large temperate-forest complex, Denmark….Pages 221-234
Short-term responses of the understory to the removal of plant functional groups in the cold-temperate deciduous forest….Pages 235-245
Host trait preferences and distribution of vascular epiphytes in a warm-temperate forest….Pages 247-254
Seed bank composition and above-ground vegetation in response to grazing in sub-Mediterranean oak forests (NW Greece)….Pages 255-265
On the detection of dynamic responses in a drought-perturbed tropical rainforest in Borneo….Pages 267-290
Changes in tree and liana communities along a successional gradient in a tropical dry forest in south-eastern Brazil….Pages 291-304
Woody plant composition of forest layers: the importance of environmental conditions and spatial configuration….Pages 305-318
The importance of clonal growth to the recovery of Gaultheria procumbens L. (Ericaceae) after forest disturbance….Pages 319-337
Species richness and resilience of forest communities: combined effects of short-term disturbance and long-term pollution….Pages 339-350
Hurricane disturbance in a temperate deciduous forest: patch dynamics, tree mortality, and coarse woody detritus….Pages 351-363