Three hundred years of forest and land-use change in Massachusetts, USA

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 29, Issue 10-11, 2002, Pages 1319-1335

  Hall, Brian ^a   Motzkin, Glenn ^a   Foster, David R ^a   Syfert, Mindy ^a   Burk, John ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Ecoregions; History; Land use; Massachusetts; New England; Scale

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; LAND USE CHANGE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036816019     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.2002.00790.x     Document Type: Article

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