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A comparison of the growth patterns of paper birch, Betula papyrifera, from burned and unburned stands

• HF-ID: HF1989-22
• Category: Research Files
• Creator:
  • Eifler, Douglas

• Date: 1989
• Location: Prospect Hill Tract (Harvard Forest)
• Media: Paper
• Contents:
  • Student report (Biology 160). 1 file folder. 8.5 inches x 11 inches.

• Keywords: birch, disturbance, fires, tree growth
• Abstract:
  • The influence of fire on tree growth patterns was examined by measuring paper birch, Betula papyrifera, from burned and unburned stands.
  
  
  • One site (burned plot) had been burned during a forest fire in May 1957. The other site (unburned site) was approximately 800m from the burned plot, and had not been burned.

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