A decade of recovery of understory vegetation buried by volcanic tephra from Mount St. Helens

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 317-344

  Zobel, Donald B ^a   Antos, Joseph A ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bryophytes; Conifer establishment; Disturbance; Growth form and vegetation change; Inertia following disturbance; Mount St. Helens, Washington, USA; Resilience following disturbance; Seedling establishment and survival in tephra; Succession; Vegetation change after burial; Volcanic tephra

Indexed keywords

CERATODON PURPUREUS; POHLIA ANNOTINA; PINACEAE; TSUGA;

DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM RECOVERY; TEPHRA; UNDERSTOREY VEGETATION;

USA, WASHINGTON, MOUNT ST HELENS;

EID: 0031284530     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(1997)067[0317:ADOROU]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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