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DOI	10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118093
	Predicting oak regeneration success at the stem exclusion stage of stand development in upland hardwood forests
	Graboski L.E.; Steiner K.C.; McDill M.E.; Finley J.C.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0378-1127
卷号	465
英文摘要	Oaks (Quercus spp.) are becoming less abundant in most of the Central Hardwood Region of the eastern United States, and this is creating shifts in forest composition that will likely have important economic and ecological consequences. In large measure, these changes originate with deficiencies in the oak regeneration cohort preceding stand-replacement disturbances such as timber harvest. To sustain the oak resource, managers need better information on the connection between pre-harvest and early stand conditions and regeneration outcomes. In this study, we used direct observations of oak seedling dominance in the stem exclusion stage of stand development (mean age = 17.4 years) to model the probability of successful regeneration during stand initiation as a function of stand conditions before and after harvest (ages −1, 1, 4, and 7 years). For pre-harvest conditions, the most predictive model was based solely on the aggregate height of advance regeneration oak seedlings >15 cm in sample plots. As expected, post-harvest models were more predictive, and increasingly more predictive with the passage of time, and they were optimized by contrasting the height of the plot-dominant oak seedling with the heights of competing tree species. The predictive power of post-harvest models increased most between ages 1 and 4 years and only slightly between ages 4 and 7, indicating that age 4 is an optimal time to evaluate opportunities to favor oak regeneration with early silvicultural interventions. Of the two most common competitors, black birch (Betula lenta) had the more inhibitory effect on the success of oak regeneration when it was present. However, red maple (Acer rubrum) was the more important competitor because of its very high frequency of occurrence in plots occupied by oak seedlings. © 2020 Elsevier B.V.
英文关键词	Advance; Model; Oak; Prediction; Quercus; Regeneration; Stem exclusion stage; Stocking
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Ecology; Forecasting; Hardwoods; Harvesting; Models; Advance; Advance regenerations; Central hardwood regions; Ecological consequences; Quercus; Regeneration; Stocking; Very high frequency; Reforestation; deciduous tree; ecological modeling; forest ecosystem; regeneration; seedling; timber harvesting; Ecology; Forecasts; Hardwoods; Harvesting; Models; Quercus; United States; Acer rubrum; Betula lenta; Betula nigra; Quercus
来源期刊	Forest Ecology and Management
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/155297
作者单位	Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, United States; Now with Mountain Research LLC, Altoona, PA 16601, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Graboski L.E.,Steiner K.C.,McDill M.E.,et al. Predicting oak regeneration success at the stem exclusion stage of stand development in upland hardwood forests[J],2020,465.
APA	Graboski L.E.,Steiner K.C.,McDill M.E.,&Finley J.C..(2020).Predicting oak regeneration success at the stem exclusion stage of stand development in upland hardwood forests.Forest Ecology and Management,465.
MLA	Graboski L.E.,et al."Predicting oak regeneration success at the stem exclusion stage of stand development in upland hardwood forests".Forest Ecology and Management 465(2020).