High structural diversity is often attributed to old-growth forests, usually established naturally
and unmanaged. Forest diversity should be considered not only in terms of species diversity …

In this study, the structure and spatial patterns of adjacent beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) forest
stands, both those having undergone intensive management and those without …

Forest structure is a key element for assessing the ecological functions and services in forest
ecosystems, which can be described and quantified using forest structural indices. This …

Ecosystem legacies, reflecting the management history traits, are visible in structural
indicators of a forest stand. We assessed patterns of spatial forest structure by using …

In Europe, concerns regarding the provision of ecosystem services from forests, such as
biodiversity, has led to a widespread conversion from even-aged to close-to-nature forest …

This paper's purpose was structural and phytocoenological diversity distinguishability. In the
first part it was revealed structural diversity in both horizontal and vertical level for diameter …

The common stand-level diameter distributions of old-growth forests (ie, reverse-J or rotated
sigmoid) resemble the managerial targets of selection forestry, seemingly making it a …

The structure of forest stands changes over time and under the influence of local
disturbances, these changes are referred as the dynamics of forest stands. Changes in the …

Background: Landscape fragmentation constitutes one of the most severe causes of global
biodiversity loss. Aims: We studied Fagus sylvatica forests with different levels of …

Unlike many studies on the stand structure of European beech-dominated natural forests we
explicitly examined the spatial variability of six general stand characteristics: density, basal …