Fifty-Five Years of Change in a Northwest Georgia Old-Growth Forest
| Autor: | Michael K. Crosby, Rachel B. Butler, B. Nicole. Hodges |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
geography
Quercus montana geography.geographical_feature_category 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences biology 05 social sciences Pignut hickory 0507 social and economic geography Plant community Forestry Plant Science Ecological succession Old-growth forest biology.organism_classification 01 natural sciences food.food Basal area Ulmus 'Alata' food Ecosystem 050703 geography 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Castanea. 83:152 |
| ISSN: | 0008-7475 |
| DOI: | 10.2179/16-113 |
| Popis: | Old-growth forests provide unique insight into historical compositions of forests in the eastern United States. Plots established within a mixed forest community within Marshall Forest in Rome, Georgia, in 1960 (and remeasured in 1989) were reassessed to determine changes in forest composition. The community has experienced approximately 10% increase in basal area since the previous measurement period. However, changes in species importance have occurred. Chestnut oak (Quercus montana), mockernut hickory (Carya tomentosa), white oak (Quercus alba), and flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) have all decreased in importance, while pignut hickory (Carya glabra), winged elm (Ulmus alata), yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera), and red maple (Acer rubrum) have all increased in importance. Additionally, there are no Pinus spp. saplings in the study area, indicating seedlings are not being recruited into the midstory. These changes indicate continued succession to a composition increasingly dominated by ... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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