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Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Sci° enceDir° ect Foereset E col wines | Management ELSEVIER Forest Ecology and Management 252 (2007) v—vi www.elsevier.com locate’ foreco Contents Regular articles Vertical structure and spatial associations of dominant tree species in an old-growth temperate forest Z. Hao (Shenyang, PR China), J. Zhang (Shenyang, PR China; Beijing, PR China and Georgetown, SC, USA), B. Song (Georgetown, SC, USA), J. Ye (Shenyang, PR China) and B. Li (Shenyang, PR China and Beijing, PR China) Effects of environment and progeny on biomass estimations of five hybrid poplar families grown at three contrasting sites across Europe S.Y. Dillen, N. Marron (Wilrijk, Belgium), C. Bastien (Olivet, France), L. Ricciotti, F. Salani, M. Sabatti (Viterbo, Italy), M.P.C. Pinel, A.M. Rae, G. Taylor (Southampton, UK) and R. Ceulemans (Wilrijk, Belgium) 2 Patchiness of prescribed burns in dry sclerophyll eucalypt forests in South-eastern Australia ’.D. Penman (Beecroft, Australia and Melbourne, Australia), R.P. Kavanagh (Beecroft, Australia), D.L. Binns (Coffs Harbour Jetty, Australia) and D.R. Melick (Beecroft, Australia and Kunming, China) 24 Litter N and P dynamics in two secondary tropical dry forests after relaxation of nutrient availability constraints J. Campo, E. Solis and M.G. Valencia (México, Mexico) 33 Effects of initial planting density on branch development in 4-year-old plantation grown Eucalyptus pilularis and Eucalyptus cloeziana trees P.J. Alcorn (Canberra, Australia), P. Pyttel (Freiburg, Germany), J. Bauhus (Canberra, Australia and Freiburg, Germany), R.G.B. Smith, D. Thomas (Coffs Harbour, Australia), R. James and A. Nicotra (Canberra, Australia) - 4] Ecological impacts of different harvesting scenarios for temperate evergreen rain forest in southern Chile—A simulation experiment N. Riiger, A.G. Gutiérrez, W.D. Kissling (Leipzig, Germany), J.J. Armesto (Santiago, Chile) and A. Huth (Leipzig, Germany) 52 Influence of initial stand density and genotype on longitudinal variation in modulus of elasticity for 17-year-old Pinus radiata M.J. Waghorn, E.G. Mason and M.S. Watt (Christchurch, New Zealand) 67 Cattle grazing facilitates tree regeneration in a conifer forest with palatable bamboo understory A. Darabant (Vienna, Austria and Bumthang, Bhutan), P.B. Rai (Bumthang, Bhutan), K. Tenzin (Vienna, Austria and Thimphu, Bhutan), W. Roder (Bumthang, Bhutan) and G. Gratzer (Vienna, Austria) 3 Decline of silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) stands in the Spanish Pyrenees: Role of management, historic dynamics and pathogens J. Oliva (Solsona, Spain) and C. Colinas (Solsona, Spain and Lleida, Spain) 84 Long-lasting legacy of forest succession and forest management: Characteristics of coarse woody debris in an evergreen broad-leaved forest of Eastern China E.-R. Yan, X.-H. Wang (Shanghai, People’s Republic of China), J.-J. Huang (Columbus, OH, USA), F.-R. Zeng and L. Gong (Shanghai, People’s Republic of China) 98 Tree regeneration and microclimate in a liana and bamboo-dominated semideciduous Atlantic Forest P.1. Campanello, M. Genoveva Gatti (Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina), A. Ares (Albany, OR, USA), L. Montti (Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) and G. Goldstein (Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina and Coral Gables, FL, USA) 108 Effects of slash reinforcement of strip roads on rutting and soil compaction on a moist fine-grained soil L. Eliasson (Gidea, Sweden) and |. Wasterlund (Umea, Sweden) 118 Factors controlling soil organic carbon sequestration under exotic tree plantations: A case study using the CO2Fix model in southwestern Ethiopia B. Lemma (Shashemene, Ethiopia and Uppsala, Sweden), D.B. Kleja, M. Olsson and I. Nilsson (Uppsala, Sweden) 124 Modeling mortality of second-rotation loblolly pine plantations in the Piedmont/Upper Coastal Plain and Lower Coastal Plain of the southern United States D. Zhao, B. Borders, M. Wang and M. Kane (Georgia, USA) 32 The effects of disturbance intensity on temporal and spatial patterns of herb colonization in a southern New England mixed-oak forest M.L. Aikens, D. Ellum (New Haven, CT, USA), J.J. McKenna, M.J. Kelty (Amherst, MA, USA) and M.S. Ashton (New Haven, CT, USA) 144 Effects of deer debarking on masting and trunk radial growth of Hondo spruce, Picea jezoensis var. hondoensis, in a subalpine forest of central Japan E. Shibata (Nagoya, Japan). 159 Intra- and interspecific patterns of day roost selection by three species of forest-dwelling bats in Southern British Columbia M.J. Vonhof (Kalamazoo, MI, USA) and J.C. Gwilliam (Nelson, Canada) 165 A typology of stand structure and dynamics of Quaking aspen in northwestern Colorado B.P. Kurzel, T.T. Veblen and D. Kulakowski (Boulder, CO, USA) 176 Anthropogenic edges: Their influence on the American three-toed woodpecker (Picoides dorsalis) foraging behaviour in managed boreal forests of Quebec C. Gagné, L. Imbeau and P. Drapeau (Québec, Canada) : , 19] Spatial habitat modeling of American chestnut at Mammoth Cave National Park S. Fei (Lexington, KY, USA), J. Schibig (Gallatin, TN, USA) and M. Vance (Cookeville, TN, USA) es 201 Accuracy of forest inventory mapping: Some implications for boreal forest management I.D. Thompson, S.C. Maher, D.P. Rouillard, J.M. Fryxell and J.A. Baker (Ontario, Canada) 208 Bryophyte community response to silvicultural opening size in a managed northern hardwood forest J.M. Shields, C.R. Webster and J.M. Glime (Michigan, USA) v1 Contents The impact of deer on relationships between tree growth and mortality in an old-growth beech-maple forest Z.T. Long, T.H. Pendergast IV and W.P. Carson (Pittsburgh, PA, USA). year con Odmaie va awe Productivity of ectomycorrhizal and selected edible saprotrophic fungi in pine forests of the |p re-Pyrenees mountains, Spain: Predictive equations for forest management of mycological resources J. Martinez de Aragon, J.A. Bonet, C.R. Fischer (Solsona, Spain) and C. Colinas (Solsona, Spain and Lleida, Spain) Biomass and litterfall in a native lowland rainforest: Marelongue Reserve, La Réunion Island, Indian Ocean S. Kirman (Aix-en-Provence, France), D. Strasberg, V. Grondin (Saint-Denis, France), F. Colin (Noumea, France), J. Gilles (Saint-Denis, France) and J.D. Meunier (Aix-en-Provence, France) 252 1-3 NOV 30 2007