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Título
Evaluating different harvest intensities on the understory species richness and diversity in Pinus pinaster natural stands
Año del Documento
2009
Editorial
Springer
Documento Fuente
Plant Ecology, Volume 201, No. 1, 211–220
Abstract
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 the
number 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 by
harvest 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.
Materias (normalizadas)
Pinos
Bosques y silvicultura
Departamento
Instituto Universitario de Gestión Forestal Sostenible
ISSN
1573 - 5052
Idioma
eng
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openAccess
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