Past land use, disturbance regime change, and vegetation response in a southern Iffinois bottomland conservation area

Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 242-256

  Nelson, John L ^a,b   Groninger, John W ^a   Ruffner, Charles M ^a   Battaglia, Loretta L ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural abandonment; Anthropogenic landscape change; Bottomland hardwood forest; Floodplain; Mississippi embayment; Quercus; Taxodium; Wind disturbance

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FIRE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAND USE CHANGE; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; PLANT COMMUNITY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WIND FORCING;

ILLINOIS; MERMET LAKE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

MICROSTEGIUM VIMINEUM; NYSSA AQUATICA; NYSSACEAE; QUERCUS; TAXODIUM; TAXODIUM DISTICHUM;

EID: 69949087709     PISSN: 10955674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3159/09-RA-005.1     Document Type: Article

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