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History and dynamics of coastal beech forests

• HF-ID: HF2006-33
• Category: Research Files
• Creator: Busby, P.E.
• Date: 2004-2006
• Location: Naushon Island (MA)
• Media: Paper
• Contents:
  • Thesis, notes, data sheets, D.R. Foster's comments on thesis, tree core notebook. 1 Bound Book and 1 accordion folder. 8.5 inches x 11 inches.

• Keywords: dendrochronology, disturbance, forest dynamics, hurricanes, off forest
• Abstract:
  • This thesis explores the history and dynamics of coastal beech forests on Naushon Island, Massachusetts. In the first chapter I focus exclusively on forest response to hurricanes, characterizing variation in beech and oak species growth and regeneration responses following several hurricanes that have occurred over the past 150 years. The second chapter explores the long-term history and dynamics of monodominant coastal beech forests in order to clarify the conditions and factors that facilitate single-species dominance. This work is part of a larger effort by ecologists at the Harvard Forest to understand the long-term history of vegetation dynamics in the coastal region.

• Related Items:
  • Thesis
  • HF Data Archive: HF195 History and Dynamics of American Beech in Coastal New England 1620-2006
  • HFS 2006-01 Naushon Soils 2006
  • HFS 2006-02 Naushon Island Tree Cores 2006
  • HFS 2006-02b Naushon Island Tree Cores - Oak Recon. Cores
  • HFS 2006-02c Naushon Island Tree Cores

• Archives Location: Middle Room, stack 14, drawer 3; Bound Thesis stored on shelf above file cabinets in Middle Room.
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