Succession of an Upland Oak/Hickory Forest in the Central Hardwood Region

For the last 9,000-10,000 years the Central Hardwood Region (CHR) has been primarily composed of a mosaic of mesophytic communities in climax and communities of successional forest types dominated by oak (Quercus Linnaeus) and hickory (Carya Nuttall). Shade intolerant oak/hickory dominated forest ty...

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Main Author: Hoover, Nathan
Format: Others
Published: OpenSIUC 2018
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Online Access:https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2352
https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3366&context=theses