By: Dr. Jacob Fraser (US Forest Service Northern Research Station)
Presented on January 6, 2026
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Abstract: Old-growth forests provide important ecosystem services in the form of biodiversity, resilience, and unique species assemblages. To better understand the processes that shape the complex structural and compositional attributes across space and time, researchers frequently study the rare remaining examples of old-growth existing today. This webinar will cover the results from ongoing long-term monitoring projects focused on remnant old-growth forests across the southern tier of the Central Hardwoods region focusing on temporal trends in species composition and forest structure as well as the spatial pattern of these characteristics across a site. A major objective of quantifying these dynamic processes is to provide managers with information to incorporate into the landscape-level planning of maturing forests in the region.
