Temporal variation in species recruitment and dendroecology of an old-growth white oak forest in the Virginia Piedmont, USA

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 124, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 275-284

  Abrams, Marc D ^a   Copenheaver, Carolyn A ^a  

^a Huck Institutes for Life Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Fire; Stand dynamics; Succession; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

DENDROECOLOGY; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; RECRUITMENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VEGETATION HISTORY;

UNITED STATES;

ACER RUBRUM; CARYA GLABRA; FAGUS GRANDIFOLIA; LIRIODENDRON TULIPIFERA; NYSSA SYLVATICA; QUERCUS ALBA; QUERCUS RUBRA;

EID: 0033530809     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(99)00071-7     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Abrams M.D. Fire and the development of oak forests. Bioscience. 42:1992;346-353.
2. Abrams, M.D., 1998a. The red maple paradox. BioScience 48, 355-364.
3. Abrams, M.D., 1998b. The composition and dendroecology of a mixed-oak old-growth forest at Great Falls Park, Virginia. Report to the National Park Service.
4. Abrams, M.D., in press. The postglacial history of oak forests in eastern North America. In: W.J., Mc Shea, Healy, W.M. (Eds.), The Ecology and Management of Oaks for Wildlife, John Hopkins University Press, in press.
5. Abrams M.D., Downs J.A. Successional replacement of old-growth white oak by mixed-mesophytic hardwoods in southwest Pennsylvania. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 20:1990;1864-1870.
6. Abrams M.D., Orwig D.A., DeMeo T.E. Dendroecological analysis of successional dynamics for a presettlement-origin white pine-mixed oak forest in the southern Appalachians, USA. Journal of Ecology. 83:1995;123-133.
7. Abrams, M.D., Orwig, D.A., Dockry, M.J., 1997a. Dendroecology and successional status of two contrasting old-growth oak forests in the Blue Ridge Mountains, USA. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 27, pp. 994-1002.
8. Abrams, M.D., Ruffner, C.M., DeMeo, T.M., 1997b. Dendroecology and species co-existence in an old-growth Quercus-Acer-Tilia talus slope forest in the central Appalachians, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 106, pp. 9-18.
9. Buckner, E., McCracken, W., 1978. Yellow-poplar: a component of climax forests? Journal of Forestry 76, 421-423.
10. Braun, E.L., 1950. Deciduous forests of eastern North America. The Free Press, NY, pp. 596.
11. Cho D.S., Boerner R.E.J. Dendrochronological analysis of the canopy history of two Ohio old-growth forests. Vegetatio. 120:1995;173-183.
12. Cook, E.R., Mayes, P., 1987. Decadal-scale patterns of climate change over eastern North America inferred from tree rings. In: Berger, W.H., Labeyrie, L.D. (Ed.), Abrupt climate change. D. Reidel Publishing Company, Holland. pp. 61-66.
13. Cottam G., Curtis J.T. The use of distance measures in phytosociological sampling. Ecology. 37:1956;451-460.
14. Crow T.R. Reproductive mode and mechanisms for self-replacement of northern red oak (Quercus rubra): A review. Forest Science. 34:1988;19-40.
15. Day G.M. The Indian as an ecological factor in the northeastern forest. Ecology. 34:1953;329-346.
16. Foster D.R. Disturbance history, community organization and vegetation dynamics of the old-growth Pisgah Forest, southwestern New Hampshire, USA. Journal of Ecology. 76:1988;105-134.
17. Frelich L.E., Graumlich L.J. Age class distribution and spatial patterns in an old-growth hemlock-hardwood forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 24:1994;1937-1947.
18. Fritts, H.C., 1976. Tree rings and climate. Academic Press, London.
19. Fritts H.C., Swetnam T.W. Dendroecology: a tool for evaluating variations in past and present forest environments. Advances in Ecological Research. 19:1989;111-188.
20. Heinselman M.L. Fire in the virgin forests of the Boundary Waters canoe Area, Minnesota. Quarternary Research. 3:1973;329-382.
21. Johnson E.A., Miyanishi K., Kleb H. The hazards of interpretation of static age structures as shown by stand reconstruction in a Pinus contorta-Picea engelmannii forest. Journal of Ecology. 82:1994;923-931.
22. Keever C. Present composition of some stands of the former oak-chestnut forest in the southern Blue Ridge Mountains. Ecology. 34:1953;44-54.
23. Lorimer C.G. Eighty-year development of northern red oak after partial cutting in a mixed-species Wisconsin forest. Forest Science. 29:1983;371-383.
24. Lorimer, C.G., 1985. The role of fire in the perpetuation of oak forests. In: Johnson, J.E. (Ed.), Proceedings, Challenges in Oak Management and Utilization. Cooperative Extension Service, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, pp. 8-25.
25. Lorimer C.G., Chapman J.W., Lambert W.D. Tall understorey vegetation as a factor in the poor development of oak seedlings beneath mature stands. Journal of Ecology. 82:1994;227-237.
26. Lorimer C.G., Frelich L.E. A method for estimating canopy disturbance frequency and intensity in dense temperate forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 19:1989;651-663.
27. Michaux, F.A., 1853. North American Sylvan, vol. 1. Robert P. Smith Publishing, Philadelphia, PA.
28. Nowacki G.J., Abrams M.D., Lorimer C.G. Composition, structure, and historical development of northern red oak stands along an edaphic gradient in north-central Wisconsin. Forest Science. 36:1990;276-292.
29. Orwig, D.A., Abrams, M.D., 1994a. Land-use history (1720-1992), composition, and dynamics of oak-pine forests within the Piedmont and Coastal Plain of northern Virginia. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 24, pp. 1216-1225.
30. Orwig, D.A., Abrams, M.D., 1994b. Contrasting radial growth and canopy recruitment patterns in Liriodendron tulipifera and Nyssa sylvatica: gap obligate versus gap facultative tree species. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 24, pp. 2141-2149.
31. Phipps, R.L., 1985. Collecting, preparing, cross-dating, and measuring tree increment cores. US Geological Survey, Water Resource Investigation Report 85-4148, p. 48.
32. Porter, H.C., Derting, J.F., Elder, J.H., Henry, E.F., 1963. Soil survey of Fairfax County, Virginia. USDA Soil Conservation Service. 103 pages plus maps.
33. Ruffner C.M., Abrams M.D. Relating land-use history and climate to the dendroecology of a 326-year-old Quercus prinus talus slope forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 28:1998;347-358.
34. Russell E.W.B. Vegetational change in northern New Jersey from precolonial to the present: a palynological interpretation. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 107:1980;432-446.
35. Schweingruber, F.H., 1989. Tree Rings. Basics and Application of Dendrochronology. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Boston, MA.
36. Spurr S.H. George Washington, surveyor and ecological observer. Ecology. 32:1951;544-549.
37. Smith, D.M., 1986. The practice of silviculture. John Wiley and Sons, Inc. New York.
38. Stokes, M.A., Smiley, T.L., 1968. An introduction to tree-ring dating. University of Chicago Press.
39. Whitney, G.G., 1994. From Coastal Wildnerness to Fruited Plain. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.