Land-use History and Its Role in Sustaining Oak Forests
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INTRODUCTION As the Wisconsin ice sheets retreated to the North toward the end of the Pleistocene Epoch, tundra and boreal vegetation that had dominated the Central Hardwood Region began to be replaced by hardwood species. Spurred on by the warming climate and the widespread use of fire by Native Americans, oaks (Quercus spp.) gradually dominated the region (Abrams 2002, Carroll and others 2002).
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