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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Eastern forests"”.
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Assessing the cumulative impact of disturbance on canopy structure and chemistry in Appalachian forests
Eastern forests experience a range of disturbance events over time, from stand-replacing disturbances, such as clear cuts, to ephemeral disturbances, such as insect outbreaks. By understanding the cumulative impact of disturbances on canopy structure and chemistry, we can gain insight into …
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Floral richness inventory of an eastern U.S. forest
… methods of sampling for species richness in eastern forests were compared: timed-search meanders, belt transects, and plots. Meanders and transects located more species in the same amount of time as plots. Plot sampling encompassed only two-thirds of the richness known from the site. …
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Interspecific wood trait variation predicts decreased carbon residence time in changing forests
… 2. Leveraging a 25-year treefall record for two eastern hardwood forests in central Illinois, USA, we used a chronosequence approach to estimate downed deadwood decay rates for eight common tree taxa. We hypothesized the increasing dominance of Acer spp. in eastern forests, due to disturbance …
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Excavating
Excavation, the process by which archeologists gather information, is the principle behind the composition of these poems— these are acts of imagination, of identification. In linking my singular life with the lives of others, I hope to tap into the common human yearning, to paraphrase my poem "The …