A 300-year history of disturbance and canopy recruitment for co-occurring white pine and hemlock on the Allegheny Plateau, USA

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 353-363

  Abrams, Marc D ^a   Orwig, David A ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age structure; Dendrochronology; Pennsylvania; Stand dynamics; Succession; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

RECRUITMENT; WHITE PINE;

USA, PENNSYLVANIA, ALLEGHENY PLATEAU;

PINACEAE; PINUS STROBUS; TSUGA CANADENSIS;

EID: 0030469738     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2261198     Document Type: Review

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