Living on the edge: a comparison of disturbance-caused edge effects between coniferous and deciduous forest communities.
dc.contributor.author | Bzdok, Christopher | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | DeSousa, Cynthia | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Schneider, Rebecca | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Stewart, Amy | en_US |
dc.coverage.spatial | UMBS Station | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-06-14T22:04:39Z | |
dc.date.available | 2007-06-14T22:04:39Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1993 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/54414 | |
dc.description.abstract | The 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.format.extent | 3144 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.relation.haspart | Diagram or Illustration | en_US |
dc.relation.haspart | Graph | en_US |
dc.relation.haspart | Table of Numbers | en_US |
dc.subject | General Ecology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | FOREST | en_US |
dc.subject.other | DISTURBANCE | en_US |
dc.subject.other | FRAGMENTATION | en_US |
dc.subject.other | DECIDUOUS | en_US |
dc.subject.other | CONIFEROUS | en_US |
dc.subject.other | TEMPERATURE | en_US |
dc.subject.other | LIGHT | en_US |
dc.subject.other | DIVERSITY | en_US |
dc.subject.other | RICHNESS | en_US |
dc.subject.other | CANOPY | en_US |
dc.subject.other | COVER | en_US |
dc.title | Living on the edge: a comparison of disturbance-caused edge effects between coniferous and deciduous forest communities. | en_US |
dc.type | Working Paper | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Natural Resource and Environment | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Biological Station, University of Michigan | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/54414/1/2851.pdf | en_US |
dc.description.filedescription | Description of 2851.pdf : Access restricted to on-site users at the U-M Biological Station. | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Biological Station, University of Michigan (UMBS) |
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