Performance and population dynamics of a native understory herb differ between young and old forest stands in the Southern Appalachians

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 304, Issue , 2013, Pages 444-454

  Jackson, Michelle M ^a   Pearson, Scott M ^b   Turner, Monica G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MARS HILL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest understory herbs; Lambda; Land use history; Life table response experiment; Population growth rate; Prosartes lanuginosa

Indexed keywords

FOREST UNDERSTORY; LAMBDA; LAND-USE HISTORY; LIFE TABLE; POPULATION GROWTH RATES; PROSARTES LANUGINOSA;

CULTIVATION; DROUGHT; EXPERIMENTS; GROWTH RATE; LAND USE; PLANTS (BOTANY); POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEED;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; FECUNDITY; GERMINATION; GROWTH RATE; HERB; LIFE TABLE; NATIVE SPECIES; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POPULATION GROWTH; SEED; SOWING; STAND DYNAMICS; SURVIVAL; UNDERSTORY;

APPALACHIANS;

EID: 84879539884     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.05.049     Document Type: Article

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