Successional Forest Dynamics
Successional Forest Dynamics
30 Years Following Clearcutting
Clearcuts on experimental watersheds provide an opportunity to examine how these large-scale forest disturbances influence various ecosystem processes, including stream hydrology, soil erosion, nutrient cycling, and vegetation diversity and successional patterns. To investigate vegetation diversity and successional patterns in the Watershed 7 (WS 7) clearcut in the Coweeta basin, inventories were conducted 1, 3, 8, 17, 20, and 30 years after disturbance. This chapter synthesizes the long-term results on successional vegetation dynamics, including species composition, species diversity, biomass and nutrient content, functional roles of key dominant species. It also integrates related short-term studies.
Keywords: watersheds, clearcuts, forest disturbance, ecosystems, vegetational diversity, successional patterns, successional vegetation dynamics
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