Vegetation development in a southern Maine pitch pine-scrub oak barren

Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 19-32

  Copenheaver, Carolyn A ^a,c   White, Alan S ^a   Patterson III, William A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance ecology; Land use history; Maine; Pine barrens; Pinus rigida; Quercus ilicifolia; Vegetation distribution

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; PLANT COMMUNITY; SCRUB;

MAINE; UNITED STATES;

PINUS CARIBAEA; PINUS RIGIDA; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ILICIFOLIA; VACCINIUM;

EID: 0034022704     PISSN: 10955674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3088744     Document Type: Article

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