Converging forest community composition along an edaphic gradient threatens landscape-level diversity

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 201-213

  Amatangelo, Kathryn L ^a   Fulton, Mark R ^b   Rogers, David A ^c   Waller, Donald M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PARKSIDE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bray Curtis ordination; Fire suppression; Homogenization; Overstorey understorey linkages; Succession; Wisconsin forests

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BASAL AREA; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CANOPY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; DEER; DISTURBANCE; DOMINANCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FRUIT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HOMOGENEITY; LANDSCAPE; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY; REGENERATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STAND STRUCTURE; UNDERSTORY;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

ACER; BETULA; CERVIDAE; CONIUM; QUERCUS RUBRA;

EID: 79951655903     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00730.x     Document Type: Article

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