Agricultural land-use history increases non-native plant invasion in a southern Appalachian forest a century after abandonment

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 920-929

  Kuhman, Timothy R ^a,c   Pearson, Scott M ^b   Turner, Monica G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MARS HILL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EDGEWOOD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL PLOTS; BIOTIC COMMUNITY; CATION CONCENTRATIONS; CAUSE-EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS; CELASTRUS ORBICULATUS THUNB; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DOWNSLOPE; FOREST COMMUNITY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST SITES; INVASIVE PLANTS; LONICERA JAPONICA THUNB; NON-NATIVE; NORTH CAROLINA , USA; PLANT INVASION; REFERENCE SITES; SOIL PH;

CULTIVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; LAND USE; POSITIVE IONS; SOILS;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CULTIVATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LAND USE CHANGE; OVERSTORY; PH; SHADE TOLERANCE; UNDERSTORY;

CATIONS; CULTIVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; LIRIODENDRON; SOIL; USA;

APPALACHIANS; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

CELASTRUS; CELASTRUS ORBICULATUS; LIRIODENDRON; LIRIODENDRON TULIPIFERA; LONICERA JAPONICA; MICROSTEGIUM VIMINEUM;

EID: 79955715284     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x11-026     Document Type: Article

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