Forest Ecology

Quantitative classification and carbon density of the forest vegetation in Lüliang Mountains of China.- Effects of introduced ungulates on forest understory communities in northern Patagonia are modified by timing and severity of stand mortality.- Tree species richness and composition 15 years after strip clear-cutting in the Peruvian Amazon.- Changing relationships between tree growth and climate in Northwest China.- Does leaf-level nutrient-use efficiency explain Nothofagus-dominance of some tropical rain forests in New Caledonia?.- Dendroecological study of a subalpine fir (Abies fargesii) forest in the Qinling Mountains, China.- A conceptual model of sprouting responses in relation to fire damage: an example with cork oak (Quercus suber L.) trees in Southern Portugal.- Non-woody life-form contribution to vascular plant species richness in a tropical American forest.- Relationships between spatial configuration of tropical forest patches and woody plant diversity in northeastern Puerto Rico.- Vascular diversity patterns of forest ecosystem before and after a 43-year interval under changing climate conditions in the Changbaishan Nature Reserve, northeastern China.- Gap-scale disturbance processes in secondary hardwood stands on the Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee, USA.- Plurality of tree species responses to drought perturbation in Bornean tropical rain forest.- Red spruce forest regeneration dynamics across a gradient from Acadian forest to old field in Greenwich, Prince Edward Island National Park, Canada.- Distance- and density-dependent seedling mortality caused by several diseases in eight tree species co-occurring in a temperate forest.- Response of native Hawaiian woody species to lava-ignited wildfires in tropical forests and shrublands.- Evaluating different harvest intensities over understory plant diversity and pine seedlings, in a Pinus pinaster Ait. natural stand of Spain.- Land-use history affects understorey plant species distributions in a large

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"The target group for which the book is published is possibly academic libraries which may prefer a bound hardcover book 'Forest Ecology' to single issues of Plant Ecology." (Eberhard F. Bruenig, International Forestry Review, Vol. 11 (4), 2009)