Assessing the potential impacts to riparian ecosystems resulting from hemlock mortality in great smoky mountains national park

Environmental Management

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 335-345

  Roberts, Scott W ^a,b   Tankersley Jr , Roger ^c   Orvis, Kenneth H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory   (United States)

^c TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GIS modeling; Great Smoky Mountains National Park; Hemlock mortality; Hemlock Wooly Adelgid; Stream temperature; Tsuga Canadensis

Indexed keywords

GIS MODELING; GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK; HEMLOCK MORTALITY; HEMLOCK WOOLY ADELGID; STREAM TEMPERATURE; TSUGA CANADENSIS;

ECOSYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HARDWOODS; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; PARKS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

FORESTRY;

RIVER WATER;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EVERGREEN FOREST; GIS; MORTALITY; MOUNTAIN REGION; OVERSTORY; RIPARIAN FOREST; STREAM;

ARTICLE; CONIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; MORTALITY; RHODODENDRON; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; STREAM (RIVER); TSUGA; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TREES; TSUGA; UNITED STATES;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; GIS; HARDWOODS; LAND USE; MOUNTAINS; RIVERS; TEMPERATURE; TSUGA CANADENSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

APPALACHIANS; GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ADELGES TSUGAE; ADELGIDAE; RHODODENDRON; TSUGA CANADENSIS; TSUGA CAROLINIANA;

EID: 68149163734     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-009-9317-5     Document Type: Article

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