Land-use history as long-term broad-scale disturbance: Regional forest dynamics in central New England

Ecosystems

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 96-119

  Foster, David R ^a   Motzkin, Glenn ^a   Slater, Benjamin ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; History; Land use; New England landscape; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003032714     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100219900008     Document Type: Article

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