An historical perspective on forest succession and its relevance to ecosystem restoration and conservation practice in North America

No abstract is available for this paper.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Forest Ecology and Management

• Publication date

  2014-10-15

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science, History

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/J.FORECO.2014.07.026
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Temporal Patterns in Herbaceous Layer Communities of the North Carolina Piedmont

  2014influential reference
• The Herbaceous Layer in Forests of Eastern North America

  2014cited by this paper
• Vegetation change in the Duke Forest, 1977-2010

  2012cited by this paper
• Drivers of secondary succession rates across temperate latitudes of the Eastern USA: climate, soils, and species pools

  2011cited by this paper
• The forgotten stage of forest succession: early-successional ecosystems on forest sites

  2011influential reference
• Carbon loss from an unprecedented Arctic tundra wildfire

  2011cited by this paper
• The use of chronosequences in studies of ecological succession and soil development

  2010cited by this paper
• Paleoecological Perspectives on Fire Ecology: Revisiting the Fire-Regime Concept~!2009-09-02~!2009-11-09~!2010-03-05~!

  2010cited by this paper
• Understanding ecosystem retrogression

  2010cited by this paper
• Beyond naturalness : rethinking park and wilderness stewardship in an era of rapid change

  2010cited by this paper
• Interacting regime shifts in ecosystems: implication for early warnings

  2010cited by this paper
• Biogeographic synthesis of secondary succession rates in eastern North America

  2010cited by this paper
• Fire Ecology in Rocky Mountain Landscapes

  2009cited by this paper
• Ecological Foundations for Fire Management in North American Forest and Shrubland Ecosystems

  2009cited by this paper
• Ever since Clements: from succession to vegetation dynamics and understanding to intervention*

  2009influential reference
• The Demise of Fire and “Mesophication” of Forests in the Eastern United States

  2008cited by this paper
• Holocene vegetation and fire regimes in subalpine and mixed conifer forests, southern Rocky Mountains, USA

  2008cited by this paper
• The Ecological Relations of the Vegetation On the Sand Dunes of Lake Michigan

  2008cited by this paper
• A 2000-year environmental history of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, inferred from lake-sediment records

  2008cited by this paper
• Tolerance of Pinus taeda and Pinus serotina to low salinity and flooding: Implications for equilibrium vegetation dynamics

  2008cited by this paper
• What's new about old fields? Land abandonment and ecosystem assembly.

  2008influential reference
• Introduction history and population genetics of the invasive grass Bromus tectorum (Poaceae) in Canada.

  2007cited by this paper
• Vegetation community change over decadal and century scales in the North Carolina piedmont

  2007cited by this paper
• Retrogressive Succession and Restoration on Old Landscapes

  2007cited by this paper
• Feedbacks of Terrestrial Ecosystems to Climate Change

  2007cited by this paper
• Recent changes in the fire regime across the North American boreal region—Spatial and temporal patterns of burning across Canada and Alaska

  2006cited by this paper
• Facilitation and competition influence succession in a subtropical old field

  2006cited by this paper
• Direct experimental evidence for alternative stable states: a review

  2005cited by this paper
• Nature's Keepers: The Remarkable Story of How the Nature Conservancy Became the Largest Environmental Organization in the World

  2005cited by this paper
• Long‐term change in ground‐layer vegetation of deciduous forests of the North Carolina Piedmont, USA

  2005cited by this paper
• Landscape ecology: what is the state of the science?

  2005influential reference
• The structural complexity of old field vegetation and the recruitment of bird-dispersed plant species

  2004cited by this paper
• Nutrient Cycling and Limitation: Hawai'i as a Model System

  2004cited by this paper
• Ecosystem Properties and Forest Decline in Contrasting Long-Term Chronosequences

  2004cited by this paper
• Dynamic and static views of succession: Testing the descriptive power of the chronosequence approach

  2004cited by this paper
• Regime Shifts, Resilience, and Biodiversity in Ecosystem Management

  2004cited by this paper
• Primary Succession and Ecosystem Rehabilitation: References

  2003cited by this paper
• Catastrophic regime shifts in ecosystems: linking theory to observation

  2003cited by this paper
• The Importance of Land-Use Legacies to Ecology and Conservation

  2003cited by this paper
• Panarchy Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems

  2002cited by this paper
• Threads of Continuity There are immense differences between even-aged silvicultural disturbances (especially clearcutting) and natural disturbances, such as windthrow, wildfire, and even volcanic eruptions.

  2000cited by this paper
• The Fundamentals of Vegetation Change - Complexity Rules

  2000cited by this paper
• Uses and Limitations of Historical Variability Concepts in Managing Ecosystems

  1999cited by this paper
• Factors Influencing Succession: Lessons from Large, Infrequent Natural Disturbances

  1998cited by this paper
• Mesoscale Disturbance and Ecological Response to Decadal Climatic Variability in the American Southwest

  1998cited by this paper
• EFFECTS OF FIRE SIZE AND PATTERN ON EARLY SUCCESSION IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK

  1997cited by this paper
• Preserving Nature in the National Parks: A History

  1997cited by this paper
• LOCAL AND REGIONAL SEDIMENT CHARCOAL EVIDENCE FOR FIRE REGIMES IN PRESETTLEMENT NORTH-EASTERN NORTH AMERICA

  1996cited by this paper
• Fire, Global Warming, and the Carbon Balance of Boreal Forests

  1995cited by this paper
• The origins of the national forests: edited by Harold K. Steen Forest History Society, Durham, NC, 1992, 334 pp, $16.95 pb, $31.95 hb

  1994cited by this paper
• Landscape dynamics in crown fire ecosystems

  1994cited by this paper
• A History of the Ecosystem Concept in Ecology: More Than the Sum o f the Parts

  1993cited by this paper
• A revised concept of landscape equilibrium: Disturbance and stability on scaled landscapes

  1993cited by this paper
• Fire History and Climate Change in Giant Sequoia Groves

  1993cited by this paper
• Biological invasions by exotic grasses, the grass/fire cycle, and global change

  1992cited by this paper
• A percolation model of ecological flows

  1992cited by this paper
• The problem of pattern and scale in ecology

  1992cited by this paper
• The Earth in Transition: Bromus tectorum , a Biotic Cause of Ecosystem Impoverishment in the Great Basin

  1991cited by this paper
• Patch-size effects on early succession in southern Appalachian forests.

  1990cited by this paper
• Landscape Ecology: The Effect of Pattern on Process

  1989cited by this paper
• Interactions among processes controlling successional change

  1987cited by this paper
• Models, mechanisms and pathways of succession

  1987cited by this paper
• Competition and Tree Death

  1987cited by this paper
• The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and Patch Dynamics

  1986cited by this paper
• Chapter 21 – Patch Dynamics: A Synthesis

  1985cited by this paper
• Natural disturbance and patch dynamics: an introduction.

  1985cited by this paper
• CONVERGENCE DURING SECONDARY FOREST SUCCESSION

  1984cited by this paper
• Resource Competition and Community Structure

  1984cited by this paper
• A Retrospective View of Old-field Succession after 35 Years

  1983cited by this paper
• Resource competition and community structure.

  1983cited by this paper
• Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire

  1982cited by this paper
• Natural disturbance and the steady state in high-altitude balsam fir forests.

  1981cited by this paper
• Secondary Forest Succession on the North Carolina Piedmont

  1981cited by this paper
• Vegetational Change and Ice-Wedge Polygons through the Thaw-Lake Cycle in Arctic Alaska

  1980cited by this paper
• Succession: A population process

  1980cited by this paper
• The U.S. Forest Service: A History

  1977cited by this paper
• Mechanisms of Succession in Natural Communities and Their Role in Community Stability and Organization

  1977cited by this paper
• Dynamic structure of wave-regenerated Abies balsamea forests in the north-eastern United States.

  1976cited by this paper
• Effects of Fire on Factors Controlling Plant Growth in Adenostoma Chaparral

  1975cited by this paper
• Communities and Ecosystems

  1975cited by this paper
• Disturbance, patch formation, and community structure.

  1974cited by this paper
• Fire in the Virgin Forests of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, Minnesota

  1973cited by this paper
• The Ecological Role of Fire in Sierran Conifer Forests: Its Application to National Park Management

  1973cited by this paper
• Succession after Fire in the Chaparral of Southern California

  1971cited by this paper
• Wildland Fires and Ecosystems--A Hypothesis

  1970cited by this paper
• Evaporation retardation by monolayers.

  1969cited by this paper
• The strategy of ecosystem development.

  1969influential reference
• Plant Succession and Indicators

  1964cited by this paper
• Changes in Vegetation, Structure, and Growth of Southwestern Pine Forests since White Settlement

  1960cited by this paper
• Vegetation science concepts I. Initial floristic composition, a factor in old-field vegetation development with 2 figs.

  1954cited by this paper
• A Consideration of Climax Theory: The Climax as a Population and Pattern

  1953cited by this paper
• Factors Determining the Role of Loblolly Pine and Sweetgum in Early Old-Field Succession in the Piedmont of North Carolina

  1953cited by this paper
• Fire as an Ecological Factor in the Southwestern Ponderosa Pine Forests

  1951cited by this paper
• Causes of Succession on Old Fields of the Piedmont, North Carolina

  1950cited by this paper
• Pattern and process in the plant community

  1947cited by this paper
• Water and Light in Relation to Pine Reproduction

  1946cited by this paper
• An Ecological Analysis of the Plant Communities of Piedmont, North Carolina

  1942cited by this paper
• Plant Succession in the Larrea-Flourensia Climax

  1940cited by this paper
• The Structure and Development of Old Field Shortleaf Pine Stands and Certain Associated Physical Properties of the Soil

  1938cited by this paper
• Nature and Structure of the Climax

  1936cited by this paper

• Influences on vegetation structure 55 years after clearcutting and broadcast burning, and wildfire in a western larch forest

  2026influential citation
• Strategies of allocating root-shoot biomass in plantations and natural forests at various community stages and moisture levels

  2025cites this paper
• Ectomycorrhizal fungal community succession and fragmentation across forest edges nearly three decades postharvest

  2025cites this paper
• Successional Growth Dynamics of Woody Saplings in Tropical Dry Forest Understory

  2025cites this paper
• “Skin contains land and birds”: Understanding inner healing intelligence through critical vitalism and Indigenous thought

  2025cites this paper
• Patterns of deadwood amount and deadwood diversity along a natural forest recovery gradient from agriculture to old-growth lowland tropical forests

  2024cites this paper
• Shaping the European Alps: Trends in landscape patterns, biodiversity and ecosystem services

  2024cites this paper
• GIS-based modelling of landscape patterns in mountain areas using climate indices and regression analysis

  2024cites this paper
• The Influence of Management Practice on the Snakes in Forest Food Webs

  2024cites this paper
• Bark Stripping by Deer Disturbs Regeneration in a Larix–Abies Subalpine Forest

  2023cites this paper
• Revisiting the model system for forest succession: Eighty years of resampling Piedmont forests reveals need for an improved suite of indicators of successional change

  2023cites this paper
• Succession of the Abandoned Rice Fields Restores the Riparian Forest

  2022cites this paper
• Conceptualizing the circular bioeconomy

  2022cites this paper
• Post-disturbance reorganization of forest ecosystems in a changing world

  2022cites this paper
• Past critique but much praise for restoration ecology: four decades on

  2022cites this paper
• Species Distributions on Successional and Flooding Gradients in Connecticut River Floodplain Forests

  2021cites this paper
• Strengthening the Network of High Conservation Value Forests in Boreal Landscapes

  2021cites this paper
• Structural changes of vegetation and its association with microclimate in a successional gradient of low thorn forest in northeastern Mexico

  2020cites this paper
• Plant diversity increases in an urban wildland after four decades of unaided vegetation development in a post-industrial site

  2020cites this paper
• The myth of Frederic Clements’s mutualistic organicism, or: on the necessity to distinguish different concepts of organicism

  2020cites this paper
• The Living Community Challenge: An unCase Study in Biophilic Master Planning

  2020cites this paper
• Soil microbial activity is resistant to recreational camping disturbance in a Prosopis dominated semiarid savanna

  2020cites this paper
• A Comparison of Fuel Reduction Methods for Wildfire Risk Management and Climate Change Resiliency in Mixed Conifer Forests in the Sierra Nevada

  2020cites this paper
• The myth of Frederic Clements’s mutualistic organicism, or: on the necessity to distinguish different concepts of organicism

  2020cites this paper
• Plant diversity increases in an urban wildland after four decades of unaided vegetation development in a post-industrial site

  2020cites this paper
• Structural changes of vegetation and its association with microclimate in a successional gradient of low thorn forest in northeastern Mexico

  2020cites this paper
• Soil Management and Restoration

  2020cites this paper
• Forest and Rangeland Soils of the United States Under Changing Conditions: A Comprehensive Science Synthesis

  2020cites this paper
• Seasonal microclimatic variation in a succession gradient of low thorn forest in Northeastern Mexico

  2019cites this paper
• Stream Conditions after 18 Years of Passive Riparian Restoration in Small Fish-bearing Watersheds

  2019cites this paper
• Succession and Colonization

  2019cites this paper
• The succession of soil Collembola communities in spruce forests of the High Tatra Mountains five years after a windthrow and clear–cut logging

  2019cites this paper
• Assessing stream channel restoration: the phased recovery framework

  2019influential citation
• Micro-topographic roughness analysis (MTRA) highlights minimally eroded terrain in a landscape severely impacted by historic agriculture

  2019cites this paper
• Critical Zone Science in the Anthropocene: Opportunities for biogeographic and ecological theory and praxis to drive earth science integration

  2019cites this paper
• From thermodynamics to creativity: McHarg’s ecological planning theory and its implications for resilience planning and adaptive design

  2019cites this paper
• Land‐use legacies in forests at Jefferson's Monticello plantation

  2018cites this paper
• All outputs in CentAUR are protected by Intellectual Property

  2018cites this paper
• Successional trajectories and rates of change in sub-tropical Quercus forests in west-central Mexico: evidences from a permanent plot network

  2018cites this paper
• Understorey succession after burial by tephra from Mount St. Helens

  2018influential citation
• Forty-Eight Years of Forest Succession: Tree Species Change across Four Forest Types in Mid-Missouri

  2018cites this paper
• Mine land rehabilitation in Brazil: Goals and techniques in the context of legal requirements

  2018cites this paper
• Vegetation Succession on Degraded Sites in the Pomacochas Basin (Amazonas, N Peru)—Ecological Options for Forest Restoration

  2018influential citation
• Phytosociological, structural and conservation analysis of the habitats of Dupont’s lark in Europe: a phytosociological survey applied to the conservation of an endangered species

  2018cites this paper
• Ideas and perspectives: Strengthening the biogeosciences in environmental research networks

  2018cites this paper
• Forty-Eight Years of Forest Succession: Tree Species Change across Four Forest Types in Mid-Missouri

  2018cites this paper
• A critique of the historical‐fire‐regime concept in conservation

  2017cites this paper
• An ecosystem services approach to the ecological effects of salvage logging: valuation of seed dispersal.

  2017cites this paper
• Initial disturbance intensity affects recovery rates and successional divergence on abandoned ski slopes

  2016cites this paper
• Post-fire oak colonisation: Analysis of the concordance among factors of dispersal and establishment and economic valuation of ecosystem services

  2016cites this paper
• Nuts About Gold: Competition for Land in Madre de Dios, Peru

  2016cites this paper
• Ecological Dynamics and Ecological Restoration

  2016cites this paper
• Lack of soil seedbank change with time since fire: relevance to seed supply after prescribed burns

  2016cites this paper
• Benefits of an “Undesirable” Approach to Natural Resource Management

  2016cites this paper
• Regeneration of montane forests 24 years after the 1988 Yellowstone fires: A fire‐catalyzed shift in lower treelines?

  2016influential citation
• Trajectories and resilience of stand structure in response to variable disturbance severities in northern hardwoods

  2016cites this paper
• Deterministic and stochastic processes lead to divergence in plant communities 25 years after the 1988 Yellowstone fires

  2016cites this paper
• Dispersal traits as indicators of vegetation dynamics in long-term old-field succession

  2016cites this paper
• Determining the sustainable irregular condition: an analysis of an irregular mixed-species selection stand in Scotland based on recurrent inventories at 6-year intervals over 24 years

  2016cites this paper
• Shifting demographic conflicts across recruitment cohorts in a dynamic post-disturbance landscape.

  2016cites this paper
• Conceptual models of forest dynamics in environmental education and management: keep it as simple as possible, but no simpler

  2016cites this paper
• Twenty-four years after theYellowstone Fires: Are postfire lodgepole pine stands converging in structure and function?

  2016cites this paper
• The Influence of Agricultural Abandonment and the Abiotic Environment on the Vegetation Communities of a Suburban Deciduous Forest

  2015cites this paper
• Mapping dynamics of deforestation and forest degradation in tropical forests using radar satellite data

  2015cites this paper
• Landscape Disturbance Dynamics

  2015cites this paper
• Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice

  2015cites this paper
• Conceptualizing Forest Degradation.

  2015cites this paper
• 'One physical system': Tansley's ecosystem as Earth's critical zone.

  2015cites this paper