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Riparian ecosystems – particularly floodplains – of temperate rainforest regions are productive, diverse, functionally important and socially valued, yet we lack key information about their structure and function to guide conservation and management. In two one-hectare floodplain sites in coastal British Columbia, we mapped tree locations, classified gap processes, and described understory vegetation and light transmission on a systematic grid. We used hemispheric photography and spatial interpolation to map understory light and we examined how environmental heterogeneity affects understory vegetation. Understory light levels are high (overall median 18% full sun) but vary appreciably over short distances (0.5% to 19% full sun over 14 m). Understory composition varies in relation to light transmission, indicating that overstory structure drives fine-scale spatial structure in the understory plant community. Overstory trees appear to create “shade refuges” from competition with dominant shrubs. Shrub cover...

Overstory structure drives fine-scale coupling of understory light and vegetation in two temperate rainforest floodplains