Experimental response of understory plants to mechanized disturbance in an oak-pine forest

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 181-187

  Druckenbrod, Daniel L ^a   Dale, Virginia H ^b  

^a RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Pinus palustris; Plant functional types; Raunkiaer life form; Tracked vehicle disturbance

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PLANTS; BARE GROUNDS; CONTROL VALUES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL TESTING; FOREST ENVIRONMENTS; FORT BENNING; GEORGIA; GROWING SEASON; LIFE FORM; LITTER COVER; LONGLEAF PINE; MILITARY ACTIVITIES; MILITARY TRAINING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PINUS PALUSTRIS; PLANT FAMILIES; PLANT FUNCTIONAL TYPE; REPEATED MEASURES; RESOURCE MANAGERS; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURFACE SOIL; TRACKED-VEHICLE DISTURBANCE; UNDERSTORY COVER; UNDERSTORY VEGETATION;

NANOINDENTATION; TRACKED VEHICLES; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROWING SEASON; HABITAT TYPE; LITTER; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNDERSTORY;

FORESTRY; FORESTS; GEORGIA; PINUS PALUSTRIS; PLANTS;

FORT BENNING; GEORGIA; UNITED STATES;

CRYPTOPHYTA; FABACEAE; PINUS PALUSTRIS;

EID: 81755178964     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.09.029     Document Type: Article

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