Nature Communications (Jan 2021)
Global patterns and climatic controls of forest structural complexity
- Martin Ehbrecht,
- Dominik Seidel,
- Peter Annighöfer,
- Holger Kreft,
- Michael Köhler,
- Delphine Clara Zemp,
- Klaus Puettmann,
- Reuben Nilus,
- Fred Babweteera,
- Katharina Willim,
- Melissa Stiers,
- Daniel Soto,
- Hans Juergen Boehmer,
- Nicholas Fisichelli,
- Michael Burnett,
- Glenn Juday,
- Scott L. Stephens,
- Christian Ammer
Affiliations
- Martin Ehbrecht
- Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, University of Göttingen
- Dominik Seidel
- Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, University of Göttingen
- Peter Annighöfer
- Forest and Agroforest Systems, Technical University of Munich (TUM)
- Holger Kreft
- Biodiversity, Macroecology and Biogeography, University of Göttingen
- Michael Köhler
- Northwest German Forest Research Institute
- Delphine Clara Zemp
- Biodiversity, Macroecology and Biogeography, University of Göttingen
- Klaus Puettmann
- Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University
- Reuben Nilus
- Forest Research Centre, Sabah Forestry Department
- Fred Babweteera
- Budongo Conservation Field Station
- Katharina Willim
- Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, University of Göttingen
- Melissa Stiers
- Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, University of Göttingen
- Daniel Soto
- Departmento de Recursos Naurales y Tecnología, Universidad de Aysén
- Hans Juergen Boehmer
- School of Geography, Earth Science, and Environment, University of the South Pacific
- Nicholas Fisichelli
- Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park
- Michael Burnett
- Earth Systems Program, Stanford University
- Glenn Juday
- Department of Natural Resources and Environment, and Institute of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Extension, University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Scott L. Stephens
- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California
- Christian Ammer
- Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, University of Göttingen
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20767-z
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 12
Abstract
Forest structure depends both on extrinsic factors such as climate and on intrinsic properties such as community composition and diversity. Here, the authors use a dataset of stand structural complexity based on LiDAR measurements to build a global map of structural complexity for primary forests, and find that precipitation variables best explain global patterns of forest structural complexity.
