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T1 Evaluating different harvest intensities on the understory species richness and diversity in Pinus pinaster natural stands
A1 González Alday, Josu
A1 Martínez Ruiz, Carolina
A1 Bravo Oviedo, Felipe
K1 Pinos
K1 Bosques y silvicultura
AB Although modern forestry takes into consideration the analysis of the effects of forest management on plant structure, diversity and seedlings, little is known about how those parameters respond to harvest techniques in the Mediterranean region. We investigated the effect of three different harvest intensities, respect to uncut controls, on understory plant species functional groups, richness, diversity and pine seedlings in a natural Maritime pine stand in Spain, three years after harvesting. The harvest treatments produced a reduction of thenumber of Pinus pinaster seedlings and woody species cover, and an increase of species richness (total and of annual species) and plant cover of annual species respect to control plots (CO). The Shannon diversity values showed no differences between treatments. These results emphasize that the tree harvest treatments analyzed are not suitable for the management of this P. pinaster stand. Otherwise, the reduction of pine seedling density byharvest treatments and the changes in richness and cover of functional groups would not induce the natural regeneration of this stand maintaining the understory plant layer.
PB Springer
SN 1573 - 5052
YR 2009
FD 2009
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/7654
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/7654
LA eng
NO Plant Ecology, Volume 201, No. 1, 211–220
NO Instituto Universitario de Gestión Forestal Sostenible
DS UVaDOC
RD 18-nov-2024