Growth and physiology of a dominant understory shrub, Hamamelis virginiana, following canopy disturbance in a temperate hardwood forest

Assessment Report on Hamamelis Virginiana L., Cortex, Hamamelis Virginiana L., Folium, Hamamelis Virginiana L., Folium Et Cortex Aut Ramunculus Destillatum

Bottomland hardwood forest recovery following tornado disturbance and salvage logging

a USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Center for Bottomland Hardwoods Research, 432 Stoneville Road, P.O. Box 227, Stoneville, MS 38776, United States b Department of Forestry, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 1205 Lincoln Drive, Carbondale, IL 62901-4411, United States C Department of Plant Biology, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Mailcode 6509, Carbondale, IL 6290...

Sapling biomass allocation and growth in the understory of a deciduous hardwood forest.

Above- and belowground tissues of co-occurring saplings (0.1-1 m height) of Acer saccharum Marsh. (very shade tolerant), Acer rubrum L. (shade tolerant), Fraxinus americana L. (intermediate shade tolerant), and Prunus serotina Ehrh. (shade intolerant) were harvested from a forest understory to test the hypothesis that the pattern of biomass allocation varied predictably with shade-tolerance ran...

Neutrality, niches, and dispersal in a temperate forest understory.

A fundamental goal of ecology is to understand what controls the distribution and abundance of species. Both environmental niches and trade-offs among species in dispersal and competitive ability have traditionally been cited as determinants of plant community composition. More recently, neutral models have shown that communities of species with identical life-history characteristics and no ada...

Intermediate disturbance in a late-successional hemlock-northern hardwood forest

1 An old-growth mesic forest in northern Michigan, USA, experienced an unusually intense storm in July 2002. Permanent inventory plots and a 2.9-ha mapped stand allow comparison of effects of this rare disturbance with patterns of ‘baseline’ mortality. 2 Tree mortality attributable to immediate effects of the storm was of similar magnitude to mortality over the previous decade, amounting to abo...