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Living on the edge: a comparison of disturbance-caused edge effects between coniferous and deciduous forest communities.

dc.contributor.authorBzdok, Christopheren_US
dc.contributor.authorDeSousa, Cynthiaen_US
dc.contributor.authorSchneider, Rebeccaen_US
dc.contributor.authorStewart, Amyen_US
dc.coverage.spatialUMBS Stationen_US
dc.date.accessioned2007-06-14T22:04:39Z
dc.date.available2007-06-14T22:04:39Z
dc.date.issued1993en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/54414
dc.description.abstractThe study of varying responses to stress between different natural communities is a topic with important implications for applied ecology. In this paper, we compare the effects of similar, road-caused disturbances in deciduous and coniferous communities with respect to the extent of edge characteristics. We predict greater overall edge width in the coniferous forests than in the deciduous sites. We believe this is due at least in part to differences in the characteristic tree form and their effects in shading the borders of the disturbance differentially in the two communities. We find that the widths of edge effects with respect to almost every abiotic and biotic factor measured show virtually no difference between the two forest types. This leads us to conclude that the source of the disturbance, an unimproved dirt road, does not cause measurably different patterns in the fragmentation of community structure between deciduous and coniferous forests. We believe that the variability we observed is revealing, and that it can and should lead to further investigation into the nature of responses to stress across different systems.en_US
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dc.relation.haspartDiagram or Illustrationen_US
dc.relation.haspartGraphen_US
dc.relation.haspartTable of Numbersen_US
dc.subjectGeneral Ecologyen_US
dc.subject.otherFORESTen_US
dc.subject.otherDISTURBANCEen_US
dc.subject.otherFRAGMENTATIONen_US
dc.subject.otherDECIDUOUSen_US
dc.subject.otherCONIFEROUSen_US
dc.subject.otherTEMPERATUREen_US
dc.subject.otherLIGHTen_US
dc.subject.otherDIVERSITYen_US
dc.subject.otherRICHNESSen_US
dc.subject.otherCANOPYen_US
dc.subject.otherCOVERen_US
dc.titleLiving on the edge: a comparison of disturbance-caused edge effects between coniferous and deciduous forest communities.en_US
dc.typeWorking Paperen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelNatural Resource and Environmenten_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelScienceen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumBiological Station, University of Michiganen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampusAnn Arboren_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/54414/1/2851.pdfen_US
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dc.owningcollnameBiological Station, University of Michigan (UMBS)


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