controlling site to evaluate history: vegetation patterns of a new england sand plain

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 345-365

  Motzkin, Glenn ^a   Foster, David ^a   Allen, Arthur ^a   Harrod, Jonathan ^a,b   Boone, Richard ^a,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Disturbance; Fire; Land use history; New england; Pitch pine; Sand plain; Scrub oak; Soil

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; DISTURBANCE; FIRE; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; HUMAN IMPACT; SAND PLAIN; VEGETATION HISTORY;

USA, MASSACHUSETTS, CONNECTICUT VALLEY;

EID: 0030390674     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2963522     Document Type: Article

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