Long-Term Vegetation and Fire Dynamics of Pitch Pine-Oak Forests on Cape Cod, Massachusetts
- HF-ID: HF2001-40
- Category: Research Files
- Creator:
- Parshall, Tim
- Foster, D.R.
- Faison, Edward
- MacDonald, Dana
- Hansen, Barbara
- Date: March 2001 to March 2002
- Location: Cape Cod MA
- Media: Paper
- Contents:
- Rough draft, manuscript, correspondence. 1 file folder. 8.5 inches x 11 inches.
- Keywords: charcoal, fires, land use, oak, paleoecology, pine, pollen
- Abstract:
- Human disturbance in northeastern North America over the past 4 centuries has led to a dramatic change in both vegetation composition and ecosystem characteristics, altering and potentially obscuring the influence of climate and edaphic factors on vegetation patterns. A paleoecological approach on Cape Cod was used to assess landscape-scale variation in pitch pine-oak vegetation and fire occurrence on the pre European landscape and determine changes resulting form European land use activities. Fossil pollen and charcoal preserved in 7 lakes demonstrate a close link between landform and pre-European distribution of vegetation.
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