Agricultural legacies in forest environments: Tree communities, soil properties, and light availability

Ecological Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 452-463

  Flinn, Kathryn M ^a,b   Marks, P L ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Disturbance; Forest; Land use history; Light; Old field succession; Ordination; Restoration; Soil; Tree

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; LAND USE CHANGE; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; SOIL PROPERTY;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; LIGHT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; TIME; TREE; UNITED STATES;

AGRICULTURE; ECOSYSTEM; LIGHT; NEW YORK; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

ACER; ACER RUBRUM; ACER SACCHARUM; FAGUS; FAGUS GRANDIFOLIA; PINUS STROBUS;

EID: 34247279833     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/05-1963     Document Type: Article

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