Discerning responses of down wood and understory vegetation abundance to riparian buffer width and thinning treatments: an equivalence--inequivalence approach

The combined effectiveness of thinning and riparian buffers for increasing structural complexity while maintaining riparian function in second-growth forests is not well documented. We surveyed down wood and vegetation cover along transects from stream center, through buffers ranging from Resume: L'efficacite combinee de l'eclaircie et de lisieres boisees riveraines en vue d'augmenter la complexite structurelle dans des forets de seconde venue tout en maintenant leurs fonctions riveraines n'est pas bien documentee. Nous avons echantillonne le bois mort au sol et le couvert vegetal le long de transects etablis a partir du milieu de ruisseaux vers des lisieres boisees riveraines dont la largeur variait de [Traduit par la Redaction]
Introduction Forest management can result in landscapes of relatively young and structurally uniform forests typically having low abundance of down wood and little understory vegetation Wilson and Puettmann 2007). Silvicultural [...]