Qualea grandiflora Mart. (Vochysiaceae) is one of the most widespread species within the cerrado formation, which counts amongst the most threatened ecosystems worldwide. Understanding the regeneration ecology of Q. grandiflora is a central requirement for the success of conservation measures and...

Although exotic (i.e., non-native) plant species are among the main factors contributing to ecosystem change globally, investigations of northern temperate and boreal forest ecosystems in North America in the context of invasion science are scarce. Multiple hypotheses, including the 'biotic...

Silviculture can be a powerful tool for restoring and enhancing habitat for forest-dependent wildlife. In eastern North America, regenerating timber harvests support abundant wildflowers that provide essential forage for native pollinators. Factors driving floral resource availability within...

Sustainable forestry plays an important role in applying forest management measures. In many forests, management is oriented towards closer natural forest processes. Silvicultural systems that retain some part of the trees in the stand, such as shelter wood cuttings have been introduced. The aim of ...

Background and questions: How forest vegetation responds to disturbance continues to be a focal point, especially in the context of biodiversity conservation. To investigate the short-term effects of forest management on understory vegetation, we asked: (a) Are there any plant indicator species...

Silver fir Abies alba Mill. represented a historically high proportion of the natural species composition in Central Europe, but at present, due to forest management, game damage, climate change, and human activities, its share is extremely low. This paper aims to determine the abundance, species...

Understanding the factors controlling tree seedling recruitment is an integral research priority for savanna ecosystems, particularly for the management of woody plant encroachment. We investigated the effects of increased nutrients, fire and grazing on the survival, growth and biomass of Acacia...

In the economic analysis of CBFM, people's discount rates are assumed exogenous and same for all goods. We examined the validity of this assumption by eliciting the discount rates of households for grass, timber, fuelwood and money, and analyzed the impacts of various personal and economic factors...

Large, high-severity wildfires are an important component of disturbance regimes around the world and can influence the structure and function of forest ecosystems. Climatic changes and anthropogenic disturbances have altered global disturbance patterns and increased the frequency of high-severity...

Gonopterodendron sarmientoi is a threatened native tree of the Dry Chaco region in South America, adapted to semiarid conditions. However, the relationships among climatic and edaphic conditions and its forest structure have not been defined yet. Up to date, in Argentina, the study of palo santo ...