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Centuries of Ecological Resilience to Human and Natural Disturbances

• HF-ID: HFS2007-04
• Category: Research Samples
• Creator:
  • Ireland, Alex W.
  • Mew, Benjamin J.

• Associated Person:
  • Foster, David R.

• Date: June 2007 to August 2007
• Location: Tom Swamp Tract (Harvard Forest), TS IX
• Media: Samples - tree cores
• Contents:
  • 25 mounted tree cores

• Keywords: disturbance
• Abstract:
  • In 1924, Bob Marshall established a 0.15 ha plot in a Tsuga canadensis (eastern hemlock) - Pinus strobus (white pine) forest. We relocated the plot, re-measured forest structure, composition, age structure, and site features including decaying stumps, pits, and mounds.

• Archives Location: Sample Archive, Bay 1, stack 2, shelf 6
• Access: Active
• Administrative Notes:
  • HF REU program project.
  • Bob Marshall’s Forest Reconstruction Plot: Three Centuries of Ecological Resilience to Natural and Human Disturbance.