Vegetation Patterns in a Section of the Obed Wild and Scenic River, Cumberland County, Tennessee
Schmalzer PA, Hinkle CR, DeSelm HR. Vegetation Patterns in a Section of the Obed Wild and Scenic River, Cumberland County, Tennessee. Pages 257-272. In Proceedings Central Hardwood Forest Conference III. University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri. September 16-17, 1980
ABSTRACT: The vegetation of a section of the Obed Wild and Scenic River in Cumberland County, Tennessee was sampled and analyzed. Hierarchial agglomerative cluster analysis was used to establish six community types: chestnut oak-white oak, white oak, tulip poplar, beech-red maple-sugar maple, beech-tulip poplar-white oak, and river birch. Using discriminant analysis , these community types were shown to be rather distinct vegetationally but not all were environmentally distinct. The most important environmental variables segregating the community types were slope position factors. Examination of the diameter distributions curves of all and selected species in each type indicated that the chestnut oak-white and the white oak types were relatively stable, the tulip poplar and river birch types were successional and disturbance related, and the beech-red maple-sugar maple and beech-tulip poplar-white oak types were apparently undergoing some compositional changes following disturbance.
- Type
- Conference Proceeding Paper
- Authors
- Schmalzer, Paul; Hinkle, C; DeSelm, H
- Units
- OBRI
- Keywords
- agglomerative cluster analysis, APHN, Appalachian Highlands Network, community types, Cumberland Plateau, diameter distributions, discriminant analysis, mesophytic forests, Obed Wild and Scenic River, OBRI, SER, Southeast Region, succession, vegetation