Legacies of historical land use on regional forest composition and structure in Wisconsin, USA (mid-1800s-1930s-2000s)

Ecological Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1061-1078

  Rhemtulla, Jeanine M ^a,b   Mladenoff, David J ^a   Clayton, Murray K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forest inventory and analysis; Forest landscape change; General Land Office; Historical ecology; Homogenization; Land use legacies; Land use land cover change; Ordination; Presettlement; Species convergence; U.S. Public Land Survey; Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATA INTERPRETATION; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; EVERGREEN TREE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST INVENTORY; LAND USE CHANGE; LOGGING (TIMBER); ORDINATION; SAVANNA;

AGRICULTURE; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY; REVIEW; TREE; UNITED STATES;

AGRICULTURE; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; TREES; WISCONSIN;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

ACER; CONIUM;

EID: 66149165757     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1453.1     Document Type: Review

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