Timber extraction directly affects forest structure by opening the canopy, reducing the density
and volume of dominant species, and transforming the composition, diversity, and
functioning of the forest. We analyze the richness, diversity, and basal area of tree species in
a pine–oak montane forest under two stages of the Silvicultural Development Method
(thinning and liberation cut treatments) in comparison with remnants of forest considered to
be control treatment in the Ocotones forest. Timber extraction began 14 years previously but …

Timber extraction directly affects forest structure by opening the canopy, reducing the density
and volume of dominant species, and transforming the composition, diversity, and func
tioning of the forest. We analyze the richness, diversity, and basal area of tree species in a
pine–oak montane forest under two stages of the Silvicultural Development Method
(thinning and liberation cut treatments) in comparison with remnants of forest considered to
be control treatment in the Ocotones forest. Timber extraction began 14 years previously but …