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Ecology of the Vegetation of a Second‐Growth Sequoia Forest
Author(s) -
Biswell H. H.,
Buchanan H.,
Gibbens R. P.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.144
H-Index - 294
eISSN - 1939-9170
pISSN - 0012-9658
DOI - 10.2307/1933942
Subject(s) - sequoia , ecology , logging , understory , vegetation (pathology) , old growth forest , geography , herbaceous plant , agroforestry , forestry , biology , canopy , botany , medicine , pathology
Studies were made of an 80—acre tract of big tree forest which was logged about 1875 for sugar pine, ponderosa pine, and big tree. Disturbances related to logging created conditions ideal for establishment of trees, and a dense second—growth forest has developed. Incense—cedar and white fir are the most abundant trees, but the rapidly growing big trees now dominate in the early successional stages, but now the many species of shrubs and herbaceous plants present occur in low frequency.