Sprucification in protected forests: myth or veracity? - Clues from 60 yrs survey data

摘要

Questions: The purpose of this study was to examine how compositional characteristics of forest reserves in production landscapes change over time and to explore the local site conditions that drive these processes. Our hypothesis was according to the general paradigm that suppression of natural disturbance regimes and lack of active management causes protected forest areas (PFAs) to develop into forests of high density dominated by late successional tree species.