Survivors, not invaders, control forest development following simulated hurricane

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 414-423

  Plotkin, Audrey Barker ^a   Foster, David ^a   Carlson, Joel ^b   Magill, Alison ^c,d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northeast Forest and Fire Management LLC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d 37 Fogarty Road ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

1938 hurricane; Acer rubrum; Betula lenta; Disturbance; Harvard Forest; Hurricane; LTER; Massachusetts; New England; Quercus rubra; USA

Indexed keywords

BASAL AREA; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HURRICANE; INVASIVE SPECIES; PATCH SIZE; SIMULATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STAND DYNAMICS; SUCCESSION;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HURRICANE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLONIC STORMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

NEW ENGLAND; UNITED STATES;

ACER RUBRUM; BETULA LENTA; BETULA NIGRA; QUERCUS; QUERCUS RUBRA;

EID: 84876154980     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0487.1     Document Type: Article

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