Measure and modeling ecosystem services following wind and salvage disturbances

Wallin, Kimberly F.

Tuesday, August 7, 2018: 4:00 PM

343, New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center

Kimberly F. Wallin^1,2, Timothy Work³, Sarah L. Pears⁴, Eduardo Rodriguez⁴ and Jon D. Erickson⁵, (1)Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, (2)Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Burlington, VT, (3)University of Quebec at Montreal, (4)University of Vermont, (5)Gund Institute for Environment, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

Background/Question/Methods

Salvage logging remains a widespread response to forest disturbance implemented across hundreds of thousands of hectares yearly throughout forests around the world. The goal of this research is improve our understanding the ecological and silvicultural consequences of disturbance and salvaging on the sustainability and biodiversity.

Results/Conclusions

We will discuss the ecological and economic costs and benefits of salvaging logging post wind disturbance. Four years after the storm we compared vegetation in replicated stands with no wind damage (reference), stands that experienced extensive windthrow but were left unsalvaged (windthrown), and stands that were salvage harvested after windthrow (salvaged).

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