What is it about?
why forests change or stay the same in composition across a range of spatial and temporal scales
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Why is it important?
This shows why 5 spatial scales are needed to explain how forests respond to disturbances over time. The three standard hierarchical scales, individual tree, stand and landscape, and the heighborhood scale (individual tree plus surrounding trees) and meso scale--landscape features that are refuges from disturbance from which waves of succession emanate.
Perspectives
It reflects more recent thinking and a more advanced synthesis of temporal and spatial scale than my 2002 Cambridge University Press book "Forest dynamics and disturbance regimes'.
Lee E Frelich
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
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This page is a summary of: Forest dynamics, F1000Research, February 2016, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.,
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.7412.1.
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