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Robert Musselman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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long term research at the usda forest service s Experimental Forests and ranges
BioScience, 2006Co-Authors: Ariel E Lugo, Frederick J Swanson, Olga Ramos M Gonzalez, Mary Beth Adams, Brian J Palik, Ronald E Thill, Dale G Brockway, Christel C Kern, Richard Woodsmith, Robert MusselmanAbstract:Abstract The network of Experimental Forests and ranges administered by the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service consists of 77 properties that are representative of most forest cover types and many ecological regions in the nation. Established as early as 1908, these sites maintain exceptional, long-term databases on environmental dynamics and biotic responses. Early research at these sites focused on silviculture, ecosystem restoration, and watershed management. Over time, many of the properties have evolved into a functional network of ecological observatories through common large-scale, long-term experiments and other approaches. Collaboration with other institutions and research programs fosters intersite research and common procedures for managing and sharing data. Much current research in this network focuses on global change and interdisciplinary ecosystem studies at local to global scales. With this experience in developing networks and compiling records of environmental history, the exper...
Ariel E Lugo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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long term research at the usda forest service s Experimental Forests and ranges
BioScience, 2006Co-Authors: Ariel E Lugo, Frederick J Swanson, Olga Ramos M Gonzalez, Mary Beth Adams, Brian J Palik, Ronald E Thill, Dale G Brockway, Christel C Kern, Richard Woodsmith, Robert MusselmanAbstract:Abstract The network of Experimental Forests and ranges administered by the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service consists of 77 properties that are representative of most forest cover types and many ecological regions in the nation. Established as early as 1908, these sites maintain exceptional, long-term databases on environmental dynamics and biotic responses. Early research at these sites focused on silviculture, ecosystem restoration, and watershed management. Over time, many of the properties have evolved into a functional network of ecological observatories through common large-scale, long-term experiments and other approaches. Collaboration with other institutions and research programs fosters intersite research and common procedures for managing and sharing data. Much current research in this network focuses on global change and interdisciplinary ecosystem studies at local to global scales. With this experience in developing networks and compiling records of environmental history, the exper...
Franca J Bongers - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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reprint of functional structural plant models to boost understanding of complementarity in light capture and use in mixed species Forests
Basic and Applied Ecology, 2020Co-Authors: Franca J BongersAbstract:Abstract Positive relationships between tree species richness and productivity have been observed in both natural and Experimental Forests. Complementarity in resource capture and use has been put forward as one important mechanism for the positive richness-productivity relationship. However, inference that complementarity drives this relationship is often based on statistical modelling or the use of functional diversity indices and these methods do not consider resource capture or use among individuals from various species within a community. Here I introduce functional-structural plant models as tool to study species complementarity in light capture and use in mixed-species Forests. These models consider the interplay between structure, physiology and the environment in 3D and scale from organ-specific characteristics to tree and community performance. Functional-structural plant models that represent mixed-species Forests have therefore the potential to disentangle the effects of structural and functional differences among species on community light capture and use using the 3D setting of the forest. Knowing how community light capture and use in mixed-species Forests depends on structural and functional differences among species will shed light on the potential of species complementarity in light capture and use to drive species richness-productivity relationships.
Brian J Palik - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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long term research at the usda forest service s Experimental Forests and ranges
BioScience, 2006Co-Authors: Ariel E Lugo, Frederick J Swanson, Olga Ramos M Gonzalez, Mary Beth Adams, Brian J Palik, Ronald E Thill, Dale G Brockway, Christel C Kern, Richard Woodsmith, Robert MusselmanAbstract:Abstract The network of Experimental Forests and ranges administered by the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service consists of 77 properties that are representative of most forest cover types and many ecological regions in the nation. Established as early as 1908, these sites maintain exceptional, long-term databases on environmental dynamics and biotic responses. Early research at these sites focused on silviculture, ecosystem restoration, and watershed management. Over time, many of the properties have evolved into a functional network of ecological observatories through common large-scale, long-term experiments and other approaches. Collaboration with other institutions and research programs fosters intersite research and common procedures for managing and sharing data. Much current research in this network focuses on global change and interdisciplinary ecosystem studies at local to global scales. With this experience in developing networks and compiling records of environmental history, the exper...
Richard Woodsmith - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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long term research at the usda forest service s Experimental Forests and ranges
BioScience, 2006Co-Authors: Ariel E Lugo, Frederick J Swanson, Olga Ramos M Gonzalez, Mary Beth Adams, Brian J Palik, Ronald E Thill, Dale G Brockway, Christel C Kern, Richard Woodsmith, Robert MusselmanAbstract:Abstract The network of Experimental Forests and ranges administered by the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service consists of 77 properties that are representative of most forest cover types and many ecological regions in the nation. Established as early as 1908, these sites maintain exceptional, long-term databases on environmental dynamics and biotic responses. Early research at these sites focused on silviculture, ecosystem restoration, and watershed management. Over time, many of the properties have evolved into a functional network of ecological observatories through common large-scale, long-term experiments and other approaches. Collaboration with other institutions and research programs fosters intersite research and common procedures for managing and sharing data. Much current research in this network focuses on global change and interdisciplinary ecosystem studies at local to global scales. With this experience in developing networks and compiling records of environmental history, the exper...
