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Snag recruitment in subalpine forests
Northwest science., Vol.72(4), pp.303-309
1998
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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/1204
Abstract
Information on snag locations and densities is useful for managing many species of wildlife. Using a combination of belt transects, fixed plots, and aerial photographs, we recorded snag species, locations, and causal agents of tree mortality in subalpine forests in the Entiat watershed in Washington state. The overall snag density (all standing dead trees) was 51 per hectare. Subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) and lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) were the most common species of snags. Weather-related effects created more snags than any other disturbance in the period between stand-replacing fires. The density of dominant and codominant snags did not differ by aspect or slope categories, but the density of intermediate and suppressed snags was highest on steep south-facing slopes. Snag densities were lowest in stand initiation and open stem exclusion structural stages. More study is needed to determine if fire history data combined with aerial photo interpretation offer a potential method of estimating snag densities in subalpine forests
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- Title
- Snag recruitment in subalpine forests
- Creators
- Paul T. Flanagan (Author)Penelope Morgan (Author)Richard L. Everett (Author)
- Publication Details
- Northwest science., Vol.72(4), pp.303-309
- Academic Unit
- Northwest Science
- Publisher
- WSU Press
- Identifiers
- 99900501642301842
- Copyright
- In copyright ; openAccess ; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ ; http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article