Patterns of exotic plant invasions in Pennsylvania's Allegheny National Forest using intensive Forest Inventory and Analysis plots

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 257, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 258-270

  Huebner, Cynthia D ^a   Morin, Randall S ^b   Zurbriggen, Ann ^c   White, Robert L ^c   Moore, April ^c   Twardus, Daniel ^d  

^a NORTHERN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c Allegheny National Forest   (United States)

^d State and Private Forestry   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest disturbance; Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA); Invasive exotic plants; Northern hardwood forests; Predicting invasion

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS;

FOREST DISTURBANCE; FOREST INVENTORY AND ANALYSIS (FIA); INVASIVE EXOTIC PLANTS; NORTHERN HARDWOOD FORESTS; PREDICTING INVASION;

FORESTRY;

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COLONIZATION; DEFOLIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST INVENTORY; INVASIVE SPECIES; PREDICTION; VULNERABILITY;

DATA PROCESSING; DEFOLIATION; FORECASTS; FORESTS; HARDWOODS; INVENTORY CONTROL; NITROGEN; PLANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ALNUS; FAGUS; FRANGULA; FRANGULA ALNUS;

EID: 56449117531     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.08.036     Document Type: Article

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