Clear-fell harvest impacts on biodiversity: past research and the search for harvest size thresholds

Clear-fell harvesting has large aesthetic impacts and significantly alters ecosystem attributes at multiple spatial scales. Known abiotic changes include increased microclimatic variability, change...

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