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old-growth: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

● anchor · one field: forest ecology Nearest construct by meaning·not indexed
old-growth1 CONSTRUCTOld-growthWIRTH · OLD-GROWTH

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Forest ecology

A forest shaped by age, not recent disturbance

In forest ecology, old-growth is forest that has developed over a long time with no stand-replacing disturbance, so it carries large old trees, a multi-layered canopy, abundant standing snags and fallen logs, and dynamics driven by small canopy gaps rather than wholesale renewal. Wirth, Gleixner, and Heimann's edited Old-growth forests: Function, fate and value gathers how such stands function as carbon stores and biodiversity reservoirs and why they are hard to replace. The referent is a late-successional structural condition, defined by age and accumulated structure rather than by any single tree.[1]

Unit
Structural attributes: large-tree density, deadwood volume, and stand age
Recovery means
Reassembles only over centuries, which is why old-growth is treated as effectively irreplaceable on management timescales
Measured by
Indexed by stand age, large-tree and deadwood abundance, and canopy structural complexity

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References

  1. Wirth, C., Gleixner, G., & Heimann, M. (Eds.). (2009). Old-growth forests: Function, fate and value. Springer. ISBN 9783540927051

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