Sample name: Pogue Creek Natural Area

Reference: J. L. Hart and H. D. Grissino-Mayer. 2009. Gap-scale disturbance processes in secondary hardwood stands on the Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee, USA. Plant Ecology 201(1):131-146 [ER 2116]

Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Altered habitat: secondary forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 13.0

WMT: 23.0

CMT: 2.0

MAP: 1370.0

Habitat comments: "humid mesothermal" and within "the Mixed Mesophytic Forest Region... forests are intermediate between mixed mesophytic and Quercus-Carya types... The forest was established in the late 1920s after the cessation of local logging operations"

Life forms: trees

Sites: 40

Site area: 0.171

Sampling methods: belt transect

Sample size: 473 individuals

Size min: 5

Sampling comments: "Canopy gaps (n = 40) were located along transects throughout the reserve using the line intersect method" and sampling was within each gap, with counts only pertaining to "true canopy gaps"; "Total transect length was 4.47 km, with 15% of the total length in expanded gaps and true gaps, and 6% in true canopy gaps only"
total site area is nowhere stated but is apparently 40 gaps x mean gap size 42.78 m2 = 0.17112 ha; this figure is consistent with the minimum density reported in Table 2

Sample number: 2089

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-06-14 19:54:55

Modified: 2016-06-14 09:54:55