Partitioning of Space Among Trees in an Old-Growth Spruce Forest in Subarctic Fennoscandia

• Published in: Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
• Main Authors: Pouta, Pasi, Kulha, Niko, Kuuluvainen, Timo, Aakala, Tuomas
• Other Authors: Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme, University of Helsinki, Department of Forest Sciences, Boreal forest dynamics and biodiversity research group, Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), Forest Economics, Business and Society, Forest Ecology and Management
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2022
• Subjects: tree growing space; Voronoi polygon; spatial structure; old-growth forest; subarctic forest; point pattern analysis; competition; scale; BELOW-GROUND COMPETITION; SPATIAL POINT PATTERNS; PICEA-ABIES FOREST; BOREAL FOREST; PINUS-SYLVESTRIS; DISTURBANCE DYNAMICS; NATURAL VARIABILITY; SEEDLING GROWTH; REGENERATION; STAND; 4112 Forestry; 1181 Ecology; evolutionary biology; Gam; Fennoscandia; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/346715

The distribution of space among forest trees is linked to the availability of resources, among-tree competition, and hence forest dynamics. We studied partitioning of horizontal space among trees and related spatial structures in an old-growth Picea abies (L.) Karst -dominated forest in northeastern...