Effects of understory prescribed burning on shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata Mill.)/mixed-hardwood forests

Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 236-251

  Elliott, Katherine J ^a   Vose, James M ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Pinus virginiana; Prescribed fire; Quercus; Vegetation dynamics, bluestem grass

Indexed keywords

MIXED FOREST; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; UNDERSTORY;

GEORGIA; NORTH AMERICA; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ACER; ACER RUBRUM; ANDROPOGON; ANDROPOGON GYRANS; COLEOPTERA; NYSSA SYLVATICA; NYSSACEAE; OXYDENDRUM; PINUS ECHINATA; PINUS STROBUS; PINUS VIRGINIANA; QUERCUS; SCHIZACHYRIUM SCOPARIUM; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 25144431854     PISSN: 10955674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3159/1095-5674(2005)132[236:EOUPBO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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