Forest community response to moderate-severity disturbance
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The response of forest communities to moderate severity disturbance will be very important to the future of Great Lakes region forests, given ongoing pest outbreaks and the senescence of early-successional canopy trees that is occurring across the upper Great Lakes region. Forest productivity appears to be highly resilient to moderate severity disturbance, and much of this resilience may be related to community patterns.
We are studying the impact of species and community-level responses to disturbance on productivity and resilience in the Forest Accelerated Succession Experiment at the University of Michigan Biological Station. CollaboratorsDr. Peter Curtis - Ohio State University
Dr. Christopher Gough - Virginia Commonwealth University Dr. Christopher Vogel - University of Michigan Liz Stockton - Tufts University (REU Student) Ellen Goodrich-Stuart - Virginia Commonwealth (MS student) |
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