Whole-Tree Logging and Biodiversity (IMAGE)

Michigan Technological University

Whole-Tree Logging and Biodiversity

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Michigan Tech silviculturalists expected that plant diversity would go down in logging stands where whole trees had been removed, perhaps because the tops and branches leave some nitrogen behind to fertilize the soil. That's not what happened; there was no difference between whole-tree logging and leaving material behind.

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Sarah Bird/Michigan Tech

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