The long-term effects of planting and harvesting on secondary forest dynamics under climate change in northeastern China.

ABSTRACT: Unlike the virgin forest in the Changbaishan Nature Reserve in northeastern China, little research on a landscape scale has been conducted on secondary forests in the region under conditions of a warming climate. This research was undertaken in the upper Hun River region where the vegetation is representative of the typical secondary forest of northeastern China. The spatially explicit forest landscape model LANDIS was utilized to simulate the responses of forest restoration dynamics to anthropogenic disturbance (planting and harvesting) and evaluate the difference of the restoration process under continuation of current climatic conditions and climate warming. The results showed that: (1) The interaction of planting and harvesting has organizational scale effects on the forest. The combin

SUBMITTER: Yao J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4698755 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature