Disturbance Regimes in Temperate Forests
Runkle JR. 1985. Disturbance Regimes in Temperate Forests. Pages 17-33. In Runkle JR. The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and Patch Dynamics. Academic Press. NY
A discussion of the components of a disturbance regime (average rates, distribution in space and time, severity, rates of recovery, and importance of multiple-gap episodes) with examples of natural regimes from cove forests of the southern Appalachians and forests of the Allegheny Plateau, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Authors
- Runkle, James
- Units
- GRSM
- Keywords
- Ecology, forest gap, GRSM-00724