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Age Structure of the Upperstory Trees in an Area of Northern Massachusetts Burnt by Brushfire

• HF-ID: HF2002-26
• Category: Research Files
• Creator:
  • Searey, C.

• Date: 2002
• Location: Prospect Hill Tract (Harvard Forest)
• Media: Paper
• Contents:
  • Student report (Freshman Seminar). 1 file folder. 8.5 inches x 11 inches.

• Keywords: disturbance, fires
• Abstract:
  • This study's main goal was to investigate the effects of brushfire on succession in a temperate forest by determining the history of a site following a brushfire and by comparing the rates of growth of different species in such an environment.
  
  
  • The study area is in the northwest corner of the Prospect Hill tract and was choses because it was burned in 1957 by an intense brush fire.

• Archives Location: Middle Room, stack 14, drawer 2
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