Radial-growth averaging criteria for reconstructing disturbance histories from presettlement-origin oaks

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 225-249

  Nowacki, Gregory J ^a,b   Abrams, Marc D ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age distributions; Canopy disturbance; Dendroecology; Disturbance frequency and periodicity; Forest disturbance; Oak forest; Radial growth analysis; Tree recruitment data; Tree ring chronologies

Indexed keywords

QUERCUS; CASTANEA; FAGACEAE; PINACEAE; PINUS;

CANOPY DISTURBANCE; DENDROECOLOGY; DISTURBANCE HISTORY; OAK FOREST; RADIAL GROWTH;

USA, PENNSYLVANIA;

EID: 0031284512     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(1997)067[0225:RGACFR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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