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Decaying logs and habitat heterogeneity: implications for bryophyte diversity in Western Oregon forests
Northwest science., Vol.75(3), pp.270-277
2001
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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/940
Abstract
Bryophyte species richness on a variety of forest substrates in western Oregon, USA, including decaying logs, mineral soil, rocks, and hardwood tree bases was examined to inventory byrophytes and survey for species designated for federal agency protection, to quantify and evaluate the relative contributions of the range of bryophyte substrates towards bryophyte richness, and to examine whether bryophyte richness was associated with stand age. Of all substrates, logs in advanced stages of decay had the richest bryophyte flora and supported the greatest percentage of bryophyte landscape-level diversity. Such logs also contributed the greatest number of liverworts unique to a substrate type, while mineral soil contributed the greatest number of unique mosses. Hardwood bases, humus and rocks also added bryophytes not found on any other substrate type. Consequently, habitat heterogeneity increases bryophyte diversity in western Oregon forests, and fostering biological and structural legacies characteristic of old growth in young managed stands would contribute toward forest management from an ecosystem approach by fostering habitat complexity and biodiversity in the course of harvesting timber.
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- Title
- Decaying logs and habitat heterogeneity: implications for bryophyte diversity in Western Oregon forests
- Creators
- Thomas R. Rambo (Author)
- Publication Details
- Northwest science., Vol.75(3), pp.270-277
- Academic Unit
- Northwest Science
- Publisher
- WSU Press
- Identifiers
- 99900501681301842
- Copyright
- In copyright ; openAccess ; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ ; http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article