Pre-EuroAmerican settlement forests in Redwood National Park, California, USA: A reconstruction using line summaries in historic land surveys

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 833-847

  Fritschle, Joy A ^a  

^a WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Public Land Survey; Reference ecosystems; Sequoia sempervirens; Topography; Vegetation reconstruction

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; FOREST COVER; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; LOGGING (TIMBER); OVERSTORY; RECONSTRUCTION; REFERENCE SAMPLE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TREELINE; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION HISTORY; VEGETATION MAPPING;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; REDWOOD NATIONAL PARK; UNITED STATES;

ALNUS; ALNUS RUBRA; PICEA SITCHENSIS; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; SEQUOIA SEMPERVIRENS;

EID: 70349448386     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-009-9361-9     Document Type: Article

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