Habitat selection by a threatened desert amphibian by Ross K. Hinderer, Andrea R. Litt, Magnus McCaffery

“…Frogs selected areas with more low‐lying cover, especially aquatic vegetation and woody debris, a tree overstory, and a mud substrate. We recommend managing potential movement corridors for Chiricahua leopard frogs by ensuring the presence of muddy creek bottoms, woody debris, riparian overstory, low‐lying ground cover, and pools. …”
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The Tree of Life: D.H. Lawrence, Peter Wohleben and Richard Powers by Michael Bell

“…I consider the possible shift between Lawrence’s time and the present on the question of poetic dwelling by comparing Lawrence’s writing on trees in Fantasia of the Unconscious with Peter Wohleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees (2015) and Richard Powers The Overstory (2018).…”
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Spatial and Temporal Variability of Throughfall among Oak and Co-occurring Non-oak Tree Species in an Upland Hardwood Forest by Courtney M. Siegert, Natasha A. Drotar, Heather D. Alexander

“…To better understand the impacts of this shift on throughfall flux and the hydrologic budget, we monitored throughfall for one year in Northern Mississippi under the crowns of midstory and overstory oak (post oak and southern red oak) and non-oak species (hickory, red maple, and winged elm). …”
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Effect of Silviculture on Carbon Pools during Development of a Ponderosa Pine Plantation by Jie Zhang, Jianwei Zhang, Kim Mattson, Kaelyn Finley

“…We conclude that, to manage forests for carbon, we must pay more attention to promoting growth of overstory trees by controlling competing vegetation early, which will provide more opportunities for foresters to create resilient forests to disturbances and store C longer in a changing climate.…”
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Toward a Beech-Dominated Alternative Stable State in Dinaric Mixed Montane Forests: A Long-Term Study of the Pecka Old-Growth Forest by Jurij Diaci, Tomaz Adamic, Gal Fidej, Dusan Rozenbergar

“…A gradual decline of silver fir in the overstory resulted in a decrease of overall tree density to 231 trees ha–1, while growing stock remained relatively high at 712 m3 ha–1. …”
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Facilitation differentially affects competitive responses of aspen and subalpine fir through stages of stand development by Rebecca Lee Molinari, Matthew F. Bekker, Benjamin D. St. Clair, Jason Bartholomew, R. Justin DeRose, Stanley G. Kitchen, Samuel B. St. Clair

“…Basal area increment was calculated to characterize the effects of the proximity of overstory trees on multidecadal growth responses of aspen and subalpine fir in aspen‐dominant and mixed aspen–conifer stands. …”
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Trophic interactions and feedbacks maintain intact and degraded states of Hawaiian tropical forests by Stephanie Yelenik, Eli Rose, Eben H. Paxton

“…These restoration forests, however, have not undergone secondary succession, instead maintaining a koa overstory with an exotic pasture grass understory. …”
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Assessing Forest Level Response to the Death of a Dominant Tree within a Premontane Tropical Rainforest by Manuel R. Flores III, Luiza Maria Teophilo Aparecido, Gretchen R. Miller, Georgianne W. Moore

“…Moreover, average water usage by understory trees increased by 36%, possibly as a result of the treefall gap, exceeding even that of overstory trees. These observations suggest the possible reallocation of water use between overstory and understory trees in response to the emergent tree death. …”
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Morphological parameters of the norway maple small undergrowthin forests of the Novgorod-Sivers’k Polissia by V. G. Skliar

“…And on the contrary, the values reduced with the growth of the forest overstory density and the projective cover of the herb-shrub layer. …”
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Salient features and ecosystem services of tree species in mountainous indigenous agroforestry systems of North-Eastern Tanzania by Oforo Didas Kimaro, Oforo Didas Kimaro, Oforo Didas Kimaro, Ellen Desie, Didas Nahum Kimaro, Karen Vancampenhout, Karl-Heinz Feger

“…A loss of diversity and native tree species in the overstory layer has been a growing concern in agroforestry worldwide, yet the drivers behind it remain inadequately understood. …”
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The influence of canopy-layer composition on understory plant diversity in southern temperate forests by Luciana Mestre, Mónica Toro-Manríquez, Rosina Soler, Alejandro Huertas-Herrera, Guillermo Martínez-Pastur, María Vanessa Lencinas

“…Despite their importance, the influence of overstory-layer composition on understory plant diversity is relatively poorly understood within deciduous-evergreen broadleaved mixed forests. …”
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New Silvicultural Treatments for Conifer Peri-Urban Forests Having Broadleaves in the Understory - The First Application in the Peri-Urban of Xanthi in Northeastern Greece by Elias Milios, Kyriaki Kitikidou, Kalliopi Radoglou

“…Materials and Methods: In the traditional treatments, in the pine overstory cuttings, apart from the dead trees, mainly the malformed, damaged, suppressed and intermediate trees were cut. …”
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Seasonal water source patterns in a northern Arizona pine forest by Lucy P. Kerhoulas, Nicolas Umstattd, George W. Koch

“…Collectively, these findings demonstrate that management actions can benefit forests via increased soil moisture, that overstory trees rely predominantly on winter precipitation, and that monsoon precipitation is important for herbaceous species and younger, regenerating overstory trees.…”
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Ethical Mimesis and Emergence Aesthetics by Josephine Donovan

“…This article outlines the concept of emergence in current philosophical and scientific theories; examines the aesthetic precursors of emergence theory in certain Frankfurt School theorists, notably Theodor Adorno; and applies emergence aesthetic theory to a contemporary novel, Richard Powers&#8217; <i>The Overstory</i> (2018).…”
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Difference in Regeneration Conditions in <i>Pinus ponderosa</i> Dominated Forests in Northern California, USA, over an 83 Year Period by Sushil Nepal, Bianca N.I. Eskelson, Martin W. Ritchie

“…The objectives of this study were to: 1) describe historical regeneration in ponderosa pine dominated forests by species and height class, 2) find associations of regeneration with overstory, soil, and topography variables, 3) describe contemporary regeneration across various management treatments, and 4) compare differences in regeneration between historical and contemporary forests. …”
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Tropical Tree Crop Simulation with a Process-Based, Daily Timestep Simulation Model (ALMANAC): Description of Model Adaptation and Examples with Coffee and Cocoa Simulations by James R. Kiniry, J. G. Fernandez, Fati Aziz, Jacqueline Jacot, Amber S. Williams, Manyowa N. Meki, Javier Osorio Leyton, Alma Delia Baez-Gonzalez, Mari-Vaughn V. Johnson

“…A stand-in for a tropical overstory tree was created for agroforestry simulations using altered parameters for carob, a common taller tropical tree for these regions. …”
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Southern Pines Are Resistant to Mortality From an Exceptional Drought in East Texas by Paul A. Klockow, Paul A. Klockow, Christopher B. Edgar, Georgianne W. Moore, Jason G. Vogel

“…Surprisingly, greater overstory diversity for NL reduced mortality under exceptional drought. …”
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Using classification trees to predict forest structure types from LiDAR data by Chiara Torresan, Piermaria Corona, Gianfranco Scrinzi, Joan Valls Marsal

“…The highest level of user’s accuracy was reached in the classification of pole-stage forests (100%), in which more than 82% of basal area is due to the understory-trees, follow by the classification of old forests types (63.5% of basal area due to the overstory-trees) achieved 76.5% of user’s accuracy. …”
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A Different Side of the Story: On Neurodiversity and Trees by Pilar Martínez Benedí

“…This essay analyzes Richard Powers’s The Overstory (2018), a novel that ostensibly demands an eco-critical reading, under the lens of neurodiversity. …”
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Land-use history impacts spatial patterns and composition of woody plant species across a 35-hectare temperate forest plot by David A. Orwig, Jason A. Aylward, Hannah L. Buckley, Bradley S. Case, Aaron M. Ellison

“…Significant spatial clustering of abundant overstory species was observed at all spatial scales examined. …”
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