Forest vegetation change in southeast Ohio: Do older forests serve as useful models for predicting the successional trajectory of future forests?

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 223, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 200-210

  Drury, S A ^a,b   Runkle, J R ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Acer; Fire ecology; Forest composition; Maples; Oaks; Ohio; Old growth forests; Quercus; Saplings; Second growth forests; Seedlings; Stand dynamics; Vegetation change

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VEGETATION;

FIRE ECOLOGY; FOREST COMPOSITION; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; SECOND-GROWTH FOREST; STAND DYNAMICS; VEGETATION CHANGE;

FORESTRY;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; FOREST DYNAMICS; MODELING; PREDICTION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ACER; AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OHIO; PLANTS; QUERCUS;

NORTH AMERICA; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

ACER; QUERCUS; SAPINDACEAE;

EID: 32344448105     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.11.001     Document Type: Article

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