University thesis:
Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2019
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Description:
Canopy gap research in European beech-dominated forests has experienced a remarkable upswing in the last decades. It contributes to answering both fundamental ecological questions and to designing silvicultural interventions according to the widely accepted concept of close-to-nature forestry. Although close-to-nature forestry aims at mimicking the dynamics of unmanaged forests, reference values of canopy gaps in old-growth or even semi-natural forests are still scarce. Old-growth forest remnants are rare, and the mapping of canopy gaps is extremely labor-intensive. From a forest structure ...