Community dynamics of an ecotonal forest-prairie interface in northeastern Kansas

Great Plains Research

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 275-294

  Hane, Elizabeth N ^a,b   Hamburg, Steven P ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecotonal forest; Forest prairie interface; Land use history

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOTONE; FOREST; PRAIRIE;

UNITED STATES;

CARYA; QUERCUS;

EID: 0036926786     PISSN: 10525165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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