Disturbance and its effects on species diversity, composition and abundance: a test with the UMBS Burn Plots.
dc.contributor.author | Gill, Dan | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Hechlik, Tara | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Menichello, Lisa | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Paterson, Cortney | en_US |
dc.coverage.spatial | UMBS Burn Plots | en_US |
dc.coverage.spatial | UMBS Station | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-06-14T22:19:29Z | |
dc.date.available | 2007-06-14T22:19:29Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1994 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/54522 | |
dc.description.abstract | Disturbance may result in changes in species diversity. We examined two questions: 1) What is the recovery time for a forest after a major disturbance? and 2) What are the differences between a heterogeneously aged forest and a homogeneously aged forest. For both questions we determined if there would be a significant differences in tree, arthropod, and small mammal species composition, abundance, and diversity. Our data indicates that disturbance plays an important role in the composition, abundance, and diversity of tree, arthropod, and small mammal species within a habitat. This study indicates that there is greater tree diversity in heterogeneously aged stand compared to homogeneously aged stand. There also is greater tree species diversity in older stands among the burn plots. In addition, soil arthropod and small mammal abundance is greater in the homogeneously aged stand. This study has great relevance to land management strategies as human and natural induced disturbances increase because it hsows how diversity, abundance, and composition changes as a disturbed habitat ages. | en_US |
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dc.format.extent | 3144 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.relation.haspart | Graph | en_US |
dc.relation.haspart | Table of Numbers | en_US |
dc.subject | General Ecology | en_US |
dc.subject.classification | Aspen | en_US |
dc.subject.classification | Pine Woodlands | en_US |
dc.subject.other | FOREST | en_US |
dc.subject.other | SUCCESSION | en_US |
dc.subject.other | VEGETATION | en_US |
dc.subject.other | COMPOSITION | en_US |
dc.subject.other | ABUNDANCE | en_US |
dc.subject.other | DIVERSITY | en_US |
dc.subject.other | MAMMALS | en_US |
dc.subject.other | ARTHROPODS | en_US |
dc.subject.other | SPECIES | en_US |
dc.subject.other | DISTURBANCE | en_US |
dc.title | Disturbance and its effects on species diversity, composition and abundance: a test with the UMBS Burn Plots. | 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/2027.42/54522/1/2961.pdf | en_US |
dc.description.filedescription | Description of 2961.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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