Monitoring the effects of gypsy moth defoliation on forest stand dynamics on Cape Cod, Massachusetts: Sampling intervals and appropriate interpretations

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 256, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2092-2100

  Barron, Elizabeth S ^a   Patterson III, William A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cape Cod National Seashore; Disturbance regimes; Monitoring; Pine oak woodlands; Stand dynamics

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC; CAPE COD NATIONAL SEASHORE; CHANGE ANALYSES; COASTAL PLAINS; DISTURBANCE REGIMES; FOREST COMPOSITIONS; FOREST STANDS; GYPSY MOTH DEFOLIATIONS; GYPSY MOTHS; LYMANTRIA DISPAR; NORTH AMERICA; PINE-OAK WOODLANDS; PINUS RIGIDA; PITCH PINES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSES; QUERCUS; SAMPLING INTERVALS; STAND DYNAMICS; TEMPORAL CHANGES; TOPOGRAPHIC SLOPES; TREE SPECIES; WHITE OAKS;

DYNAMICS;

ABUNDANCE; COASTAL PLAIN; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DEFOLIATION; DISTURBANCE; DOMINANCE; MOTH; OVERSTORY; PEST OUTBREAK; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; STAND DYNAMICS; SUCCESSION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WOODLAND;

DEFOLIATION; DYNAMICS; FORESTRY; MONITORING;

CAPE COD; MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

LYMANTRIA; LYMANTRIA DISPAR; PINUS CARIBAEA; PINUS RIGIDA; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ALBA; QUERCUS VELUTINA;

EID: 55549098875     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.08.001     Document Type: Article

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