Integrating tree species diversity into urban forest management can help create resilient tree populations. In this study, the abundance of trees within families, genera, and species levels was determined through a system developed to evaluate the diversity of urban street trees at different...

Sustainability is central to forest management. To determine the sustainable annual harvest, practitioners rely on a simulation framework that combines inventory data, growth models, and optimization software. Because this standard simulation framework is based on model predictions aggregated into...

By examining the forest structure not only the forest conditions such as species composition, story and succession are determined, but also the future of forest in relation to growth, species diversity changes, canopy cover and basal area could be predicted. The purpose of this study was to...

Manifold benefits and advantages of mixed tree stands have been known for many decades. However, while developing and maintaining multiaged and mixed-species forests with complex stand structures has often been advocated and has recently become a worldwide priority, it is not a simple task. One...

We analyze economically optimal continuous cover forestry with dead wood as a biodiversity indicator. We study mixed-species stands consisting of Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst.), birch (Betula pendula Roth.), and other broadleaves (e.g., oak [Quercus sp.], maple [Acer sp.]). The analysis is ...

Forest management can have mixed impacts on tree-roosting bats. Several bat species have benefitted from increased roost availability generated by certain silvicultural methods. To further investigate the impacts of forest management on bats, we conducted a study on the federally threatened...

Climate change is expected to impact the function, health, and productivity of many northern latitude forests, including North American mixed-pine ecosystems. Additionally, forest managers face increasing challenges to sustaining forests in the face of high uncertainty associated with response to...

In the northern Appalachian region of North America, mortality of mature American beech (Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.) via the introduced beech bark disease (BBD) can result in dense thickets of beech saplings that inhibit the regeneration of other species. It is unknown if similar structures...

Forest management mimicking natural processes represents an approach to maintain mixed, uneven-aged stands at small spatial scales. The reliance on natural processes, especially on natural regeneration leads to the use of gap-based regeneration as a fundamental silvicultural technique. As a...