Anthropogenic ties to late-successional structure and composition in four New England hemlock stands

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 717-733

  McLachlan, Jason S ^a,b   Foster, David R ^a   Menalled, Fabian ^a,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic disturbance; Autogenic succession; Dendroecology; Forest dynamics; Pateoecology; Tsuga canadensis

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; SUCCESSION;

MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES;

BETULA; CASTANEA; CONIUM; CONIUM MACULATUM; PINUS; QUERCUS; TSUGA; TSUGA CANADENSIS;

EID: 0033919027     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[0717:ATTLSS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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