Community vegetation maps remain unlinked to exact stand ages

Evidence

These studies all rely on extrapolations from data collected largely in stands of postfire origin, but the actual number of years since fire was not a variable in most analyses. My stand-origin maps provide a record of the present age-class mosaic, and the gross areas occupied by Grigal and Ohmann’s communities are known (Table 2). Yet we still lack a plant community map that can be related to stand ages and to the successional projections of Ohmann, Ream, and Grigal. — Miron L. Heinselman, Fire in the Virgin Forests of the…, 340

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Apparent forest succession understories are often just suppressed trees as old as the canopy. — Miron L. Heinselman, Fire in the Virgin Forests of the…, 410; Predicted jack pine succession to other types never fully completes even after centuries. — Miron L. Heinselman, Fire in the Virgin Forests of the…, 342; Field observation can date land abandonment from tree growth records — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 207 (+1 more)

Related

• Predicted jack pine succession to other types never fully completes even after centuries. (similarity 0.84)
• Contrasting stand ages let fire boundaries be traced on airphoto maps. (similarity 0.83)
• Apparent forest succession understories are often just suppressed trees as old as the canopy. (similarity 0.81)
• Forest age and composition changes cluster along disturbance-history boundaries (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Forest age and composition changes cluster along disturbance-history boundaries #corroborates (0.80) — Tom Wessels, Forest Forensics, 30
• Field observation can date land abandonment from tree growth records #corroborates (0.75) — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 207