Communities in patch cut or clear cut stands were slower to recover, and appeared to develop novel communities relative to their pre-harvest condition.
"We hope the French side will make a very clear-cut stand on Tibet-related issues and help Sino-French relations recover as quickly as possible.
"He has firmly erected the idea that stability overrides everything, unswervingly safeguarded national unity, and struggled with a clear-cut stand against the forces of ethnic separatism," Mr. Xi said.
What had happened overnight was that the Pope had taken counsel with a number of advisers, who pointed out that he could not possibly go before the United Nations on October 4th to plead for peace and a respect for human dignity if no clear-cut stand had been taken on religious liberty.
In it Mr Zhou, long seen as a hardliner, speaks of the dangers of Western, democratic influences undermining the rule of the Communist Party, saying "we must have a clear head and a clear-cut stand to confidently boycott those trains of thoughts that attempt to Westernise China, separate China and bring chaos to China".
It is good to talk about that, but you should not give ready-made solutions and generate slightly general cooking recipes that say: 'we need to plant cedar tree here, we need to plant that species there, or we need to clear cut the forest stand'".
Americana Simmy Richman With PJ (am I the only one who misses Duncan?) mentioned elsewhere and no other clear-cut stand-outs, let's concentrate instead on some of 2011's less-universally-approved pleasures.
To assess the relative importance of thinned, clear-cut, and burned clear-cut stands for the diversity of bryophytes on stumps we investigated bryophyte species composition and richness on 755 spruce stumps in 27 forest stands in southern-boreal Finland.
Our findings suggest an interaction between site preparation and type of harvest (clear-cut vs. partial), which suggests that both the initial negative impacts and subsequent positive response to site preparation as stands age are attenuated somewhat in partially harvested vs. clear-cut stands.
The stands analysed in our study were characterised by larger tree diameter, and therefore, the duration of wood-processing operations was higher (42% in thinning stands, 52% in clear-cut stands).
In the thinning operations, the trees designated for felling were evenly distributed throughout the entire stand, and the number of assortments produced was smaller than obtained from clear-cut stands.
