Restoring characteristic fire regimes and forest structures are central objectives of many
restoration and fuel reduction projects. Within-stand spatial pattern is a fundamental attribute …

Stand-level spatial pattern influences key aspects of resilience and ecosystem function such
as disturbance behavior, regeneration, snow retention, and habitat quality in frequent-fire …

Current US forest fire policy emphasizes short‐term outcomes versus long‐term goals. This
perspective drives managers to focus on the protection of high‐valued resources, whether …

Classical silviculture has often emphasized timber models, fundamentally based in
production agriculture. This books presents silvicultural methods based in natural forest …

Large-diameter trees dominate the structure, dynamics and function of many temperate and
tropical forests. Although both scaling theory and competition theory make predictions about …

California's high density, fire-excluded forests experienced an extreme drought
accompanied by warmer than normal temperatures from 2012 to 2015, resulting in the …

Large-diameter trees dominate the structure, dynamics and function of many temperate and
tropical forests. However, their attendant contributions to forest heterogeneity are rarely …

Fire suppression and past logging have dramatically altered forest conditions in many areas,
but changes to within-stand tree spatial patterns over time are not as well understood. The …

Rates and spatial patterns of tree mortality are predicted to change during forest structural
development. In young forests, mortality should be primarily density dependent due to …

Abstract The potential of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) on expanding the horizon of
forest ecology has been realized, but this does not mean that the related interdisciplinary …