Effects of past logging and grazing on understory plant communities in a montane Colorado forest

Plant Ecology

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 99-109

  Fornwalt, Paula J ^a   Kaufmann, Merrill R ^a   Huckaby, Laurie S ^a   Stohlgren, Thomas J ^b,c  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Community composition; Multivariate analyses; Pinus ponderosa C. Lawson; Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirbel) Franco; Riparian areas; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; GRAZING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LOGGING (TIMBER); MONTANE FOREST; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLANT COMMUNITY; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNDERSTORY;

COLORADO; FRONT RANGE; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

PINUS PONDEROSA; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 67849126580     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-008-9513-z     Document Type: Article

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