Shifts in Southern Wisconsin forest canopy and understory richness, composition, and heterogeneity

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2482-2492

  Rogers, David A ^a   Rooney, Thomas P ^b   Olson, Daniel ^a   Waller, Donald M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotic homogenization; Oak forest; Shade tolerance; Species loss; Succession; Understory

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DECIDUOUS TREE; FOREST CANOPY; HETEROGENEITY; OVERSTORY; SHADE TOLERANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; UNDERSTORY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

ACER; QUERCUS; QUERCUS RUBRA; QUERCUS VELUTINA;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS; TREES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 54549111430     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1129.1     Document Type: Article

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