Advanced canopy regeneration: an unrecognized mechanism of forest dynamics

Ecology. 2021 Jan;102(1):e03222. doi: 10.1002/ecy.3222. Epub 2020 Dec 1.

Iván A Díaz¹, Javier Godoy-Güinao^{1

2}, Daniela Mellado-Mansilla^{1

3

4}, Ricardo Moreno-González^{1

5}, Emilio Cuq⁶, Gabriel Ortega-Solís^{1

3}, Juan J Armesto^{7

8

9}

¹ Laboratorio de Ecología y Biodiversidad del Dosel, Instituto de Conservación, Biodiversidad y Territorio ICBTe, Universidad Austral de Chile, P.O Box 567, Valdivia, Chile.
² Fundación Mar Adentro, Don Carlos 3171C, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile.
³ Department of Biodiversity, Macroecology and Biogeography, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
⁴ Institute for Biology and Environmental Sciences, AG Functional Ecology, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.
⁵ Department of Palynology and Climate Dynamic, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
⁶ Laboratorio de Dendrocronología & Cambio Global, Instituto de Conservación, Biodiversidad y Territorio ICBTe, Universidad Austral de Chile, P.O. Box 567, Valdivia, Chile.
⁷ Departamento de Ecología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, Chile.
⁸ Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad, Santiago, Chile.
⁹ Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile.

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Keywords: South American temperate rainforest; forest canopies; forest dynamics; forest regeneration; saplings; seedlings; tree-fall gaps.

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