RT Journal Article
T1 The global potential of log-driven trees for reconstructing forest ecosystems dynamics
A1 Labrecque Foy, Julie Pascale
A1 Montoro Girona, Miguel
AB The composition and structure of modern forest ecosystems result from pastand present climate as well as centuries of anthropic and natural disturbances.Concerns related to the integrity and resilience of forests in the context ofclimate change have led to novel ecosystem-based management methods thatrequire extensive knowledge about the preindustrial state of forests and pastdisturbance regimes. At the beginning of industrial forest exploitation, waterwayswere used as the main conduits to transport wood, but the timing and impacts ofthis log driving remain understudied. Given that an estimated 15% to 50% of logdrivenlogs sank during their transport, this accumulation of subfossil wood canserve as a proxy tool for reconstructing the dynamics and structure ofpreindustrial forests and inform modern forest management practices. Thisreview provides a global overview of log driving and highlights the significantvalue of these submerged logs for disturbance ecology. We demonstrate that logdriving was used on most continents, implying that proxy records from subfossillogs may be available from numerous boreal and mountainous regions. Ourreview is one of the first to illustrate the paleoecological value of log-drivingremnants and explain how such a resource provides a valuable tool forunderstanding past forest ecosystems. Such knowledge is crucial for informingforest management in the face of climate change.
PB Frontiers Media
SN 2296-701X (electrónico)
YR 2023
FD 2023-08
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/23920
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/23920
LA eng
NO Labrecque-Foy, J.-P., & Montoro Girona, M. (2023). The global potential of log-driven trees for reconstructing forest ecosystems dynamics. In Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (Vol. 11). Frontiers Media SA. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1232543
NO This research was funded by the Natural Sciences andEngineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) discoverygrant to reconstruct the regime of natural disturbances in forestecosystems (RGPIN-2022-05423) obtained by MG. J-PL-F wassupported by the excellence scholarship programs from VanierCanada Graduate Scholarships (CGV-180844) and the Fonds deRecherches du Québec – Nature et Technologies.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 15 jun 2026