Seventeen Years of Successional Change Upon Isle Royale, Lake Superior
Cooper WS. 1928. Seventeen Years of Successional Change Upon Isle Royale, Lake Superior. Ecology. 9(1):1-5
A comparative review of conditions found over a seventeen year period; includes remarks on changes in aquatic vegetation. Describes the rate of change in the secondary burn succession on Smithwick Island. Describes the Rock Shore Succession at Rock Harbor Lodge by measuring changes in size of lichens and absence of shrubs. Observations of Bog Succession were inconclusive except that the author notes the conversion of the sedge mat zone to a mere mud wallow due to the arrival of and increase in the moose population.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Cooper, William
- Units
- ISRO
- Keywords
- Ecology, FIRE, Fire Ecology, northern hardwood forest, Plant Communities, Plant Studies, post-fire succession, southern transitional boreal forest, Succession, Vegetation Change