Edge‐mediated compositional and functional decay of tree assemblages in Amazonian forest islands after 26 years of isolation

M Benchimol, CA Peres - Journal of Ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… being more vulnerable to edge‐related surface fires and wind‐throws. Additionally, forest
edge effects can be a powerful driver of non‐random floristic transitions across islands within …

Forest island edges: their structure, development, and importance to regional forest ecosystem dynamics

JW Ranney - 1977 - osti.gov
… The majority of the forest islands examined have been at near-climax states of development…
of these islands did not exceed a maximum age of 100 years. It is not known if forest edge

Stand structure and plant species occurrence in forest edge habitat along different aged roads on Okinawa Island, southwestern Japan

T Enoki, B Kusumoto, S Igarashi… - Journal of Forest …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
… the forest ecosystem in the northern part of Okinawa Island is … The decrease in tree height
near edges continued for 20 … Our results suggest that tall trees could not tolerate the edge

Patterns and processes of tree islands in two transitional environments: Alpine treeline and bog forest‐meadow ecotones

LM Resler, MB Stine - Geography Compass, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… , islands in the Glades are most abundant near the forest edge… Most trees found in the bog
forest-meadow ecotone of the … together, forming tree islands of two or more trees (Edens 1973, …

Edge effects of roads on temperature, light, canopy cover, and canopy height in laurel and pine forests (Tenerife, Canary Islands)

JD Delgado, NL Arroyo, JR Arévalo… - Landscape and Urban …, 2007 - Elsevier
… In this paper we studied road edge effects on microclimate and canopy structure in laurel
and pine forests in Tenerife (Canary Islands). We assessed depth of road edge effect for …

Road and topography effects on invasion: edge effects in rat foraging patterns in two oceanic island forests (Tenerife, Canary Islands)

JD Delgado, JR Arévalo, JM Fernández‐Palacios - Ecography, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
… , often as a function of distance from the forest edge (Bennett 1991), The hypothesis that …
Here we attempt to evaluate this hypothesis in road-fragmented forests on oceanic islands

Edge effect of the plant community structure on land-bridge islands in the Thousand Island Lake.

SU Xiao-fei, Y Jin-feng, HU Guang… - Yingyong Shengtai …, 2014 - search.ebscohost.com
… Abstract: The research was conducted on 29 land鄄bridge islands in the Thousand Island
the edge鄄interior gradient from edge to interior forest were calculated to investigate the edge

Forest edges

GR Matlack, JA Litvaitis - Maintaining biodiversity in forest …, 1999 - books.google.com
… We define a forest edge as an abrupt transition between two relatively homogeneous
ecosystems… The importance of edge in the structure and dynamics of forest islands. Pp. 67-96 in …

Not seeing the ocean for the islands: the mediating influence of matrix‐based processes on forest fragmentation effects

JA Kupfer, GP Malanson… - Global ecology and …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
… The pervasive influence of island biogeography theory on forest fragmentation research …
of forest/habitat and ‘non-forest/non-habitat’ and an overriding focus on processes within forest

Rain forest islands in the Chilean semiarid region: fog-dependency, ecosystem persistence and tree regeneration

EK del-Val, JJ Armesto, O Barbosa, DA Christie… - Ecosystems, 2006 - Springer
edge (LE) of forest patches; (2) tree regeneration is concentrated toward the edge of the
incoming fog, whereas basal area, tree … and (3) different tree species are distributed within forest