Evaluating accuracy of two types of early land survey records in the northeastern United States

Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 94-98

  Bürgi, Matthias ^a   Russell, Emily W B ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatic gradient; Colonial forest composition; Historical documentation; Northeastern United States; Witness tree records

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; SURVEYING; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES;

CONIUM; CONIUM MACULATUM; FAGUS; FAGUS GRANDIFOLIA; QUERCUS; TSUGA; TSUGA CANADENSIS;

EID: 0034121488     PISSN: 10955674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3088751     Document Type: Article

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