REN R322 Lecture 12: REN R 322 Oct.5 Lecture
12 Oct 2016
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From the cfs video: which type of disturbance is maximum impact for forest volume loss: insects (ex. mountain pine beetle) . Disturbance > ecological effects [species properties] > forest structure & composition [species properties] > change with succession > then maybe affected by another disturbance etc. (it is a cycle) Disturbance regime: disturbance type, frequency, extent/spatial pattern affect. ^ these things will effect on a landscape-scale: patch size, spatial pattern, connectivity, edges, forest age distribution. Wednesday, october 5, 2016: most of the area burned is from the big res. Further elaborated - what do these disturbed areas look like: size, shape, internal heterogeneity (stand scale) Re suppression > we are effectively suppressing them so they are less frequent: 2. ) climate change. !2: 3. ) aboriginal people may have had a large effect a long time ago with burning the landscape to work for them so once the europeans came this changed.
