Influences of Native Americans and surveyor biases on metes and bounds witness-tree distribution

Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 2574-2586

  Black, B A ^a   Abrams, M D ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Catchment analysis; Correction of; Metes and bounds surveys; Native American effects on forest composition; Pennsylvania (USA), southeastern; Physiographic analysis of forests; Pre European settlement forests; Surveyor bias; Tree species site relationships; Witness tree densities across the landscape

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SAMPLING BIAS; TREE;

PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES;

CARYA; CARYA ILLINOINENSIS; CASTANEA DENTATA; JUGLANS; METES; PSEUDOACACIA; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ALBA; QUERCUS VELUTINA; ROBINIA; ROBINIA PSEUDOACACIA; VELUTINA;

EID: 0034799778     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2001)082[2574:IONAAS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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