Bird and small mammal communities that utilize complex early seral forests forage on the abundant insects and increased abundance of seeds in the post-fire flora.
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Forest harvest converts forest stands to early seral stages, which are favoured by moose, which in turn can support a higher wolf population than caribou alone.
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In the southern portion of the Coast Ranges and in Southern California chaparral, toyon is often a locally dominant taxon in seral communities transitional between coastal sage scrub.
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Seral communities on mesic sites in the north of the ICH have a mixed overstorey of spruce, subalpine fir, lodgepole pine, paper birch, and trembling aspen.
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Complex early seral forests develop with rich biodiversity because the remaining biomass provides resources to many life forms and because of habitat heterogeneity provided by the disturbances that generated them.
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High-severity wildfire creates complex early seral forest habitat ( also called snag forest habitat ), which often has higher species richness and diversity than unburned old forest.
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There are early seral forest communities that would eventually become dominated by the climax species sal ( " Shorea robusta " ), if forest succession was allowed to proceed.
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However, often after natural disturbance the timber is harvested and removed from the system, in which case the system more closely resembles secondary forest rather than complex early seral forest.
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Douglas firs are seral trees in temperate rainforest, and possess thicker bark and a somewhat faster growth rate than most other climax trees of the area, such as the western hemlock and western redcedar.
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They required details on management plans for late seral growth ( old-growth ) stands, a more specific schedule for demonstration logging projects and more information on variable retention ( clear-cut ) plans.
