Societal challenges in understanding and responding to regime shifts in forest landscapes
2 excerpts: "The degradation of seminatural landscapes at regional scales, whereby essential functional capabilities and biotic elements are permanently lost as a result of altered disturbance regimes, is a widespread phenomenon."
and "Salvage logging of burned or windthrown forests not only eliminates critical structural legacies from predisturbance stands but can disrupt natural regenerative processes, as noted below (10, 11)."
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