Temporal change within and among forest communities of Great Smoky Mountains National Park: The influence of historic disturbance and environmental gradients
Bunn W. 2008. Temporal change within and among forest communities of Great Smoky Mountains National Park: The influence of historic disturbance and environmental gradients. University of Tennessee
We revisited 15 permanent plots that were logged in the late 1920s and 15 permanent plots that have no documented history of human disturbance. Our results show this disturbance can affect plant communities for decades following, but the extent of change in community composition may depend more on environmental gradients than on large-scale but short-lived disturbances, such as logging.
- Type
- Academic
- Authors
- Bunn, Windy A
- Date of Issue
- 2008-08
- Publisher
- University of Tennessee
- Units
- GRSM
- Keywords
- Chronosequence Analyses, Edaphic Parameter, GRSM-00465, Historically Disturbed Community, Temporal change, thesis, Understory Communities