Composition and diversity of ground-layer vegetation in silvicultural openings of southern Indiana forests

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-16

  Jenkins, Michael A ^a,b   Parker, George R ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Great Smoky Mountains National Park   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANOPY GAP; CLEARCUTTING; FIELD LAYER; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

INDIANA; UNITED STATES;

ACER; ACER SACCHARUM; ARISAEMA; PARTHENOCISSUS; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ALBA; SACCHARUM HYBRID CULTIVAR;

EID: 0032764904     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(1999)142[0001:CADOGV]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. BARNES, B. V., K. S. PREGITZER, T. A. SPIES AND V. H. SPOONER. 1982. Ecological forest site classification. J. For., 80:493-498.
2. BEERS, T. W., P. E. DRESS AND L. C. WENSEL. 1966. Aspect transformation in site productivity research. J. For., 64:691-692.
3. BORING, L. R., C. D. MONK AND W. T. SWANK. 1981. Early regeneration of a clearcut southern Appalachian forest. Ecology, 62:1244-1253.
4. BRAAK, C. J. F. TER 1987. CANOCO - a FORTRAN program for canonical community ordination. Microcomputer Power, Ithaca, N.Y., U.S.A. 95 p.
5. BRITTON, N. L. AND A. BROWN. 1970. An illustrated flora of the northern United States and Canada, Vol. 1-3. Dover Publications, Inc., New York.
6. CHRISTENSEN, N. L., A. M. BATUSKA, J. H. BROWN, S. CARPENTER, C. D'ANTONIO, R. FRANCIS, J. F. FRANKLIN, J. A. MACMAHON, R. F. NOSS, D. J. PARSONS, C. H. PETERSON, M. G. TURNER AND R. G. WOODMANSEE. 1996. The report of the Ecological Society of America committee on the scientific basis for ecosystem management. Ecol. Appl., 6:665-691.
7. COLLINS, B. S. AND S. T. A. PICKETT. 1988. Demographic responses of herb layer species to experimental canopy gaps in a northern hardwood forest. J. Ecol. 76:437-450.
8. DUFFY, D. C. AND A. J. MEIER. 1992. Do Appalachian herbaceous understories ever recover from clearcutting? Conserv. Biol., 6:196-201.
9. ELLIOTT, K. J., L. R. BORING, W. T. SWANK AND B. R. HAINES. 1997. Successional changes in plant species diversity and composition after clearcutting a southern Appalachian watershed. For. Ecol. Manage., 92:67-85.
10. - AND D. L. LOFTIS. 1993. Vegetation after logging in the southern Appalachians. Conserv. Biol., 7:220-221.
11. FISCHER, B. C. 1979. Managing light in the selection method, p. 43-53. In: H. A. Holt and B. C. Fischer (eds.). Proceedings of the John S. Wright Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 22-23 Feb. 1979.
12. -, J. A. KERSHAW, D. W. GEORGE, C. A. GEORGE AND W. L. MILLS. 1986. Tree regeneration response to clearcutting on the USFS Brownstown Ranger District. Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci., 96:231-242.
13. GAMMON, A. D., V. J. RUDOLPH AND J. L. AREND. 1960. Regeneration following clearcutting of oak during a seed year. J. For., 58:711-715.
14. GEORGE, D. W. AND B. C. FISCHER. 1991. The occurrence of oak reproduction after clearcut harvest on the Hoosier National Forest. North J. Appl. For., 8:144-146.
15. GOLDSMITH, R. B., C. M. HARRISON AND A. J. MORTON. 1986. Description and analysis of vegetation, p. 437-524. In: P. D. Moore and S. B. Chapman (eds.). Methods in plant ecology. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford.
16. HIX, D. M. 1988. Multifactor classification and analysis of upland hardwood forest ecosystems of the Kickapoo River watershed, south-western Wisconsin. Can. J. For. Res., 18:1405-1415.
17. HOMOYA, M. A., D. B. ABRELL, T. R. ALDRICH AND T. R. POST. 1984. The natural regions of Indiana. Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci., 94:245-268.
18. HORN, J. C. 1980. Short-term changes in vegetation after clearcutting in the southern Appalachians. Castanea, 45:88-96.
19. JENKINS, M. A. 1998. The response of plant communities to human disturbance in southern Indiana forests. Ph.D. Dissertation, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. 280 p.
20. JOHNSON, A. S., W. M. FORD AND P. E. HALE. 1993. The effects of clearcutting on herbaceous under-stories are still not fully known. Conserv. Biol., 7:433-435.
21. KARTESZ, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland, Vols. 1 and 2. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon.
22. LUTZ, H. J. 1930. Effects of cattle grazing on vegetation of a virgin forest in northwest Pennsylvania. J. Agric. Res., 41:561-570.
23. MARQUIS, D. A. 1972. Effects of forest clearcutting on ecological balances, p. 47-59. In: R. D. Nyland (ed.). Proceedings of the 1972 Winter Meeting, New York Section, Society of American Foresters.
24. MCCUNE, B. AND M. J. MEFFORD. 1995. PC-ORD, Multivariate analysis of ecological data, version 2.0. MjM Software Design, Gleneden Beach, Oregon, U.S.A. 126 p.
25. OLIVER, C. D. AND B. R. LARSON. 1996. Forest and dynamics, update edition. John Wiley and Sons, New York. 520 p.
26. ROACH, B. A. AND S. F. GINGRICH. 1968. Even-aged silviculture for upland central hardwoods. Central States Exp. Stn. Tech. Pap. 162. 13 p.
27. ROBERTS, M. R. AND F. S. GILLIAM. 1995. Patterns and mechanisms of plant diversity in forested ecosystems: implications for forest management. Ecol. Appl., 5:969-977.
28. SANDER, I. L. 1972. Size of oak advance reproduction: key to growth following harvest cutting. North Central For. Exp. Stn. Res. Pap. NC-79. 6 p.
29. SIEBER, E. AND C. A. MUNSON. 1994. Looking at history, Indiana's Hoosier National Forest Region, 1600 to 1950. Indiana University Press, Bloomington. 131 p.
30. SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS. 1991. Biological diversity in forest ecosystems. SAF publication 91-03, Society of American Foresters, Bethesda, Md., U.S.A. 52 p.
31. SPETICH, M. A., G. R. PARKER AND E. J. GUSTAFSON. 1997. Spatial and temporal relationships of old-growth and secondary forests in Indiana, U.S.A. Nat. Areas J., 17:118-130.
32. SPIES, T. A. AND B. V. BARNES. 1985. A multifactor classification of the northern hardwood and conifer ecosystems of the Sylvania Recreation Area, Upper Peninsula, Michigan. Can. J. For. Res., 15: 949-960.
33. VAN KLEY, J. E., G. R. PARKER, D. P. FRANZMEIER AND J. C. RANDOLPH. 1994. Field guide: ecological classification of the Hoosier National Forest and surrounding areas of Indiana. U.S. For. Serv. Bedford, Indiana. 75 p.
34. WARD, J. S., G. R. PARKER AND F. J. FERRANDINO. 1996. Long-term spatial dynamics in an old-growth deciduous forest. For. Ecol. Manage., 83:189-202.
35. ZAR, J. H. 1984. Biostatistical analysis. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 718 p.