Legacy of charcoaling in a Western Highland Rim forest in Tennessee

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 238-250

  Hart, Justin L ^a,b   Van De Gevel, Saskia L ^a   Mann, David F ^a   Clatterbuck, Wayne K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOREST; LAND USE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; SOIL PROPERTY; STAND STRUCTURE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

NORTH AMERICA; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HIGHLAND RIM;

EID: 39549115034     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2008)159[238:LOCIAW]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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