Patterns and Processes: Monitoring and Understanding Plant Diversity in Frequently Burned Longleaf Pine Landscapes

Abstract

Patterns of biodiversity and the mechanisms driving them must be thoroughly understood to guide an effective monitoring and resource management program. In addition, other dimensions of biodiversity along with new diversity metrics, such as interaction diversity, can act as more sensitive indicators of how ecological communities respond to management activities, disturbances, or global change parameters. These detailed measures of diversity, combined with knowledge of theoretical and mechanistic underpinnings of diversity, then must be made relevant for managers of natural resources.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 29, 2017
Accession Number
AD1057726

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People

  • Joseph J. O'Brien

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  • United States Forest Service

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  • Environmental science

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