Changes to a Forest

Question 1

What is silviculture?

Answer 1

Encourage mixed forests with fewer monocultures. Diversity forest products. Ex: More spruce less balsam. Limits pre-commercial thinning

Question 2

What are salvage operations?

Answer 2

Harvest over-mature forests before or right when they are killed.

Question 3

What are the major causes of habitat loss and degration?

Answer 3

Agriculture (livestock), Extraction (fishing and forestry), Development

Question 4

What is difference in habitat loss and habitat degradation?

Answer 4

• Loss causes major change to habitat causing species to no longer persist.
• Meanwhile degradation is more common, only lowers population, and may be temporary

Question 5

What is the difference in forestry and deforestation?

Answer 5

• Deforestation is when forests are completely converted into non-forest uses like agriculture or construction.
• While forestry is the harvesting of timber products that are often replenished with planting.

Question 6

How are forests impacted from edge to interior?

Answer 6

• Things on edge have higher predation effects and are more vulnerable to mortality (but good for foraging).
• Edge factors are impacted by both biotic and abiotic factors which can affect species interactions from edge to interior