Hemlock : a forest giant on the edge /
The Eastern Hemlock, massive and majestic, has played a unique role in structuring northeastern American forest environments, from Nova Scotia to Wisconsin and through the Appalachian Mountains to North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama. A 'foundation species' influencing all the species in...
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale University Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Hemlock's future in the context of its past
- An iconic species
- Lessons from Harvard forests and ecologists. I. the Pisgah forest
- Prehistory to present
- Tree-falls and tanbark
- Lessons from Harvard forests and ecologists. II. Bob Marshall's plot
- Hemlock as a foundation species
- A range-wide hemlock decline
- Invasion of an exotic pest
- Cut or girdle
- Modeling the dynamics of a forest giant
- Reprise : eastern hemlock as a foundation species
- Lessons from Harvard forests and ecologists. III. the Earl Stephens plot. When doing nothing is a viable alternative : insights into conservation and management
- Lessons from Harvard forests and ecologists. IV. Three views from John Sanderson's woodlot
- Lament.