Factors influencing species composition in canopy gaps: The importance of edge proximity in Hueston woods, Ohio

Professional Geographer

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 165-178

  Kupfer, John A ^a   Runkle, James R ^b   Malanson, George P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Edge effect; Forest fragmentation; Gap succession; Ohio; Seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000436831     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0033-0124.00067     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. Abe, S., T. Masaki, and T. Nakashizuka. 1995. Factors influencing composition in canopy gaps of a temperate deciduous forest. Vegetatio 120: 21-32.
2. Alverson, W. S., D. M. Waller, and S. L. Solheim. 1988. Forests too deer: Edge effects in northern Wisconsin. Conservation Biology 2:348-58.
3. Baker, W. L. 1992. The landscape ecology of large disturbances in the design and management of nature reserves. Landscape Ecology 7:181-94.
4. Baker, W. L., and P. J. Weisberg. 1995. Landscape analysis of the forest-tundra ecotone in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Professional Geographer 47:361-75.
5. Borcard, D., P. Legendre, and P. Drapeau. 1992. Partialling out the spatial component of ecological variation. Ecology 73:1045-55.
6. Braun, E. L. 1950. Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America. Philadelphia: Blakiston Co.
7. Brokaw, N. V. L. 1985. Gap-phase regeneration in a tropical forest. Ecology 66:682-87.
8. Brown, D. G. 1994. Comparison of vegetation-topography relationships at the alpine treeline ecotone. Physical Geography 15:125-45.
9. Brown, D. G., D. M. Cairns, G. P. Malanson, S. J. Walsh, and D. R. Butler. 1994. Remote sensing and GIS techniques for spatial and biophysical analyses of alpine treeline through process and empirical models. In Environmental Information Management and Analysis: Ecosystem to Global Scales, ed. W. K. Michener, J.W. Brunt, and S. G. Stafford, 453-81. London: Taylor and Francis.
10. Burgess, R. L., and D. M. Sharpe, eds. 1981. Forest Island Dynamics in Man-Dominated Landscapes. New York: Springer-Verlag.
11. Clements, F. E. 1916. Plant Succession: The Relation of Plant Communities to Process and Practice. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication No. 242. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution.
12. Cowell, C. M. 1995. Presettlement Piedmont forests: Patterns of composition and distribution in central Georgia. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 85:65-83.
13. Curtis, J. T. 1956. The modification of mid-latitude grasslands and forests by man. In Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth, ed. W. L. Thomas, 721-36. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
14. de Foresta, H., and M. F. Prévost. 1986. Végétation pionnière et graines du sol en Forêt Guanaise. Biotropica 18:279-86.
15. Duffy, D. C., and A. J. Meier. 1992. Do Appalachian herbaceous understories ever recover from clearcutting? Conservation Biology 6:196-201.
16. Egler, F. E. 1954. Vegetation science concepts. I. Initial floristic composition-a factor in old-field vegetation development. Vegetatio 4:412-17.
17. Fox, J. F. 1977. Alternation and coexistence of tree species. American Naturalist 111:69-89.
18. Garwood, N. C. 1989. Tropical soil seed banks: A review. In Ecology of Seed Soil Banks, ed. M. A. Leck, V. T. Parker, and R. L. Simpson, 149-209. San Diego: Academic Press.
19. Geiger, R. 1966. The Climate Near the Ground. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
20. Grumbine, R. E. 1994. What is ecosystem management? Conservation Biology 8:27-38.
21. Hanson, J. S., G. P. Malanson, and M. P. Armstrong. 1990. Landscape fragmentation and dispersal in a model of riparian forest dynamics. Ecological Modelling 49:277-96.
22. Holland, M. M., P. G. Risser, and R. J. Naiman, eds. 1991. Ecotones: The Role of Landscape Boundaries in the Management and Restoration of Changing Environments. New York: Chapman and Hall.
23. Johnston, C. A., J. Pastor, and G. Pinay. 1992. Quantifying methods for studying landscape boundaries. In Landscape Boundaries: Consequences for Biotic Diversity and Ecological Flows, ed. A. J. Hansen and F. di Castri, 107-25. New York: Springer-Verlag.
24. Kupfer, J. A. 1996. Patterns and determinants of edge vegetation of a midwestern forest preserve. Physical Geography 17:62-76.
25. Kupfer, J. A., and D.M. Cairns. 1996.The suitability of montane ecotones as indicators of global climatic change. Progress in Physical Geography 20:253-72.
26. Kupfer, J. A., and J. R. Runkle. 1996. Early gap successional pathways in a beech-maple forest preserve: Patterns and determinants. Journal of Vegetation Science 7:247-56.
27. Laurance, W. F., and E. Yensen. 1991. Predicting the impacts of edge effects in fragmented habitats. Biological Conservation 55:77-92.
28. Lerch, N. K., P. E. Davis, L. A. Tornes, E. N. Hayhurst, and N. A. McLoda. 1969. Soil Survey of Preble County, Ohio. Washington, DC: Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service, U.S. Government Printing Office.
29. Malanson, G. P., and D. M. Cairns. 1995. Effects of increased cloud-cover on a montane forest landscape. Ecoscience 2: 75-82.
30. Matlack, G. R. 1993. Microenvironment variation within and among forest edge sites in the eastern United States. Biological Conservation 66:185-94.
31. McDonnell, M. J., and E. W. Stiles. 1983. The structural complexity of old field vegetation and the recruitment of bird-dispersed plant species. Oecologia 56:109-16.
32. Medley, K. E. Forthcoming. Climatic stress and dieback in the native shrub, Lindera benzoin: A subtle effect of forest fragmentation. Ohio Journal of Science.
33. Medley, K. E., B.W. Okey, G.W. Barrett, M. F. Lucas, and W. H. Renwick. 1995. Landscape change with agricultural intensification in a rural watershed, southwestern Ohio, U.S.A. Landscape Ecology 10:161-76.
34. Myster, R. W., and S. T. A. Pickett. 1990. Initial conditions, history, and successional pathways in ten contrasting old fields. American Midland Naturalist 124:231-38.
35. Neilson, R. P. 1993. Transient ecotone response to climatic change: Some conceptual and modelling approaches. Ecological Applications 3:385-95.
36. Økland, R. H., and O. Eilertsen. 1994. Canonical correspondence analysis with variation partitioning: Some comments and an application. Journal of Vegetation Science 5: 117-26.
37. Palmer, M. W. 1993. Putting things in even better order: The advantages of canonical correspondence analysis. Ecology 74:2215-30.
38. Pickett, S. T. A., S. L. Collins, and J. J. Armesto. 1987. Models, mechanisms and pathways of succession. Botanical Review 53:335-71.
39. Poulson, T. L., and W. J. Platt. 1989. Gap light regimes influence canopy tree diversity. Ecology 70:553-55.
40. Poulson, T. L., and W. J. Platt. 1996. Replacement patterns of beech and sugar maple in Warren Woods, Michigan. Ecology 77:1234-53.
41. Ranney, J. W., M. C. Bruner, and J. B. Levenson. 1981. The importance of edge in the structure and dynamics of forest islands. In Forest Island Dynamics in Man-Dominated Landscapes, ed. R. L. Burgess and D. M. Sharpe, 67-95. New York: Springer-Verlag.
42. Rebertus, A. J., and T. T. Veblen. 1993. Structure and tree-fall gap dynamics of old-growth Nothofagus forests in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Journal of Vegetation Science 4:641-54.
43. Runkle, J. R. 1981. Gap regeneration in some oldgrowth forests of the eastern United States. Ecology 62:1041-51.
44. Runkle, J. R. 1984. Development ofwoody vegetation in treefall gaps in a beech-sugar maple forest. Holarctic Ecology 7:157-64.
45. Runkle, J. R. 1985. Disturbance regimes in temperate forests. In The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and Patch Dynamics, ed. S.T. A. Pickett and P. S. White, 17-33. New York: Academic Press.
46. Runkle, J. R. 1990. Gap dynamics in an Ohio Acer-Fagus forest and speculations on the geography of disturbance. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 20:632-41.
47. Runkle, J. R., and T. C. Yetter. 1987. Treefalls revisited: Gap dynamics in the southern Appalachians. Ecology 68:417-24.
48. Saulei, S. M., and M. D. Swaine. 1988. Dynamics of seed rain and soil seed banks during forest clearance and subsequent regrowth in the Gogol Valley, Papua New Guinea. Journal of Ecology 76:1133-52.
49. Saunders, D. A., R. J. Hobbs, and C. R. Margules. 1991. Biological conservation of ecosystem fragmentation: A review. Conservation Biology 5:18-32
50. Schupp, E.W, H. F. Howe, C. K. Augsburger, and D. J. Levey. 1989. Arrival and survival in tropical treefall gaps. Ecology 70:562-4.
51. Shugart, H. H., and D. C. West. 1981. Long-term dynamics of forest ecosystems. American Scientist 69:647-52.
52. Simpson, J. W., R. E. J. Boerner, M. N. DeMers, L. A. Berns, F. J. Artigas, and A. Silva. 1994. Fortyeight years of landscape change on two contiguous Ohio landscapes. Landscape Ecology 9:261-70.
53. ter Braak, C. J. F. 1986. Canonical correspondence analysis: A new eigenvector technique for multivariate direct gradient analysis. Ecology 67:1167-79.
54. ter Braak, C. J. F. 1987. CANOCO-a FORTRAN Program for Canonical Community Ordination by [Partial] [Detrended] [Canonical] Correspondence Analysis, Principal Components Analysis and Redundancy Analysis (Version 2.1).Wageningen, Netherlands: ITI-TNO.
55. ter Braak, C. J. F. 1990. Update Notes: CANOCO Version 3.10. Wageningen, Netherlands: Agricultural Mathematics Group.
56. van der Pijl, L. 1982. Principles of Dispersal in Higher Plants. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
57. Vankat, J. L., W. H. Blackwell, and W. E. Hopkins. 1975. The dynamics of Hueston Woods and a review of the successional status of the southern beech-maple forest. Castanea 40:290-308.
58. Veblen, T. T. 1992. Regeneration dynamics. In Plant Succession: Theory and Prediction, ed. D. C. Glenn-Lewin, R. K. Peet, and T. T. Veblen, 153-87. London: Chapman and Hall.
59. Whitmore, T. C. 1989. Canopy gaps and the two major groups of forest trees. Ecology 70:536-38.
60. Wiens, J. A. 1992. Ecological flows across landscape boundaries: A conceptual overview. In Landscape Boundaries: Consequences for Biotic Diversity and Ecological Flows, ed. A. J. Hansen and F. di Castri, 217-35. New York: Springer-Verlag.
61. Wood, D. M., and R. del Moral. 1987. Mechanisms of early primary succession in subalpine habitats on Mount St. Helens. Ecology 68:780-90.
62. Woods, K. D. 1979. Reciprocal replacement and the maintenance of codominance in a beech-maple forest. Oikos 33:31-9.
63. Young, A. G., and N. Mitchell. 1994. Microclimate and vegetation edge effects in a fragmented podocarp-broadleaf forest in New Zealand. Biological Conservation 67:63-72.