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Mar 19 Vegetation Structure: Controls, Patterns, Consequences
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Landscape Patterns
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Human Land Use Effects
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Topics
Stand Level Description of vegetation structure Drivers Consequences
Landscape Level Habitat fragmentation defined Basis in island biogeography Ecological consequences
Next Week: Variation among biomes Stand level forest structure and consequences for biodiversity Forest fragmentation effects
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Stand-Level Vegetation Structure
Vegetation Structure – Distribution of vegetation biomass horizontally and vertically.
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Stand-Level Vegetation Structure
Vegetation Structure – Distribution of vegetation biomass horizontally and vertically.
Canopy Cover – Percent cover of by height class or vegetation strata (canopy, subcanopy, shrub layer, understory)
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Stand-Level Vegetation Structure
Vegetation Structure – Distribution of vegetation biomass horizontally and vertically.
Canopy Cover – Percent cover of by height class or vegetation strata (canopy, subcanopy, shrub layer, understory)
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Stand-Level Vegetation Structure
Vegetation Structure – Distribution of vegetation biomass horizontally and vertically.
Canopy Cover – Percent cover of vegetation strata (canopy, subcanopy, shrub layer, understory, or by height class Foliage height diversity – Distribution of canopy cover among forest strata expressed as a diversity index.
H is low
H is intermediate
H is high
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Stand-Level Vegetation Structure
Vegetation Structure – Distribution of vegetation biomass horizontally and vertically.
Canopy Cover – Percent cover of vegetation strata (canopy, subcanopy, shrub layer, understory, or by height class Foliage height diversity – Distribution of canopy cover among forest strata. Stem density by size class
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Stand-Level Vegetation Structure
Vegetation Structure – Distribution of vegetation biomass horizontally and vertically.
Canopy Cover – Percent cover of vegetation strata (canopy, subcanopy, shrub layer, understory, or by height class Foliage height diversity – Distribution of canopy cover among forest strata. Stem density by size class Snag and coarse woody debris density by size class and decomposition class.
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Stand-Level Vegetation Structure - Drivers
Seral Stage
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Stand-Level Vegetation Structure - Drivers
Natural Disturbance
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Stand-Level Vegetation Structure - Drivers
Growth Rates
Boreal forest
Coastal Redwood forest
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Stand-Level Vegetation Structure - Drivers
Land Management
Ecological forestry uses
silviculture to mimic natural
disturbance and maintain within-
stand and landscape structure.
Ecological forestry
Traditional clearcut
forestry
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Stand-Level Vegetation Structure - Consequences
Microclimate Decomposition and nutrient cycling Forest Productivity Fuel Loads and fire behavior
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Stand-Level Vegetation Structure - Consequences
Biodiversity
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Habitat Fragmentation and Edge Effects
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Habitat Fragmentation:
Breaking up of habitat into smaller pieces
More Specifically:
•Reduction in habitat area
•Decrease in patch size (increase in edge effects)
•Increase in distance among patches (change in connectivity)
Cadiz township, WI
Curtis 1956
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MacArthur and Wilson. 1967. A theory of island biogeography. Princeton Press.
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Species Area Relationship
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Species Area Relationship
S=cAz
number of species=intercept*area slope
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Smaller islands have fewer species than large islands.
Why?
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MacArthur and Wilson. 1967. Theory of Island Biogeography
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MacArthur and Wilson. 1967. Theory of Island Biogeography
Small island
Large island
S2
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MacArthur and Wilson. 1967. Theory of Island Biogeography
Near island
Far island
S2
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MacArthur and Wilson. 1967. Theory of Island Biogeography
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Implications for Habitat Islands?
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Habitat as islands?
If habitats in an inhospitible matrix act as islands, then we expect smaller, more isolated habitat patches hold fewer species.
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Ecological Consequences of Fragmentation
•Reduction in habitat area
- reduction in population sizes;
- decreased habitat heterogeneity.
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Ecological Consequences of Fragmentation
•Reduction in habitat area
- reduction in population sizes;
Figure 2. Relation critical reserve size and female home range size calculated for 10 species of large
carnivore. r2 = 0.84, F1,8 = 42.1, P < 0.005. ) Critical reserve size estimated by using the logistic regression models to predict the area at which populations persisted with a probability of 50%. (Woodroffe and Ginsberg 1998)
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Ecological Consequences of Fragmentation
•Reduction in habitat area
- reduction in population sizes;
- decreased habitat heterogeneity.
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Ecological Consequences of Fragmentation
•Reduction in habitat area - reduction in population sizes; decreased habitat heterogeneity.
•Reduction in Patch Size - Increasing edge effects
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Hypotheses about edge effects
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Hypotheses about edge effects
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Bird distributions across clearcut/forest edges
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Case Study Eastern Deciduous Forest: Where have the Birds Gone?
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Ecological Consequences of Fragmentation
•Reduction in habitat area - reduction in population sizes; decreased habitat heterogeneity.
•Reduction in Patch Size - Increasing edge effects
•Patch Isolation - Less exchange of organisms
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Ecological Consequences of Fragmentation
•Patch Isolation - Less exchange of organisms
Theobald et al. 2011
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Management of Landscape Pattern
Natural disturbance vs traditional forestry and ecological forestry