Forest windstorm zoom Illustration and Icon

Forest windstorm zoom: An illustration of a forest stand after strong wind, showing multiple uprooted and leaning trees on a sloped landscape. In the ecological hierarchy, individual trees (organisms) compose a temperate forest community within a terrestrial ecosystem. In forestry and disturbance ecology, this scene exemplifies windthrow, generating coarse woody debris (CWD) that alters light gaps and nutrient cycling. The depicted type of entities are vascular plants (trees) within a woodland habitat, located on a hillside. Such events facilitate regeneration and provide habitat for saproxylic organisms.