An ecosystem classification approach to assessing forest change in the southern Appalachian Mountains

2014 ◽  
Vol 323 ◽  
pp. 85-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Forbes Boyle ◽  
Scott R. Abella ◽  
Victor B. Shelburne
Keyword(s):  
Appalachian Mountains ◽  
Forest Change ◽  
Classification Approach ◽  
Southern Appalachian Mountains ◽  
Southern Appalachian ◽  
Ecosystem Classification

Fuel characterization in the southern Appalachian Mountains: an application of Landscape Ecosystem Classification

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron D. Stottlemyer ◽  
Victor B. Shelburne ◽  
Thomas A. Waldrop ◽  
Sandra Rideout-Hanzak ◽  
William C. Bridges
Keyword(s):  
Function Analysis ◽  
Appalachian Mountains ◽  
Ground Cover ◽  
Field Measurements ◽  
Eastern United States ◽  
Fuel Loading ◽  
Southern Appalachian Mountains ◽  
Southern Appalachian ◽  
Ecosystem Classification ◽  
Fuel Characteristics

Prescribed fire has been widely used in the south-eastern United States to meet forest management objectives, but has only recently been reintroduced to the southern Appalachian Mountains. Fuel information is not available to forest managers in this region and direct measurement is often impractical owing to steep, remote topography. The objective of the present study was to determine whether landscape ecosystem classification (LEC) site units support different types and amounts of fuel in the Chauga Ridges, a subregion of the Blue Ridge Mountain Province. Ecosystem classification identifies vegetation assemblages that are the expressive result of soils, physiography and vegetation, and recur predictably on the landscape. Four fuel complexes were identified using LEC units and field measurements of fuel characteristics. Fuel bed depth, duff (Oe + Oa) thickness, 1000-h fuel loading, and Rhododendron maximum, R. minus, and Vaccinium spp. ground cover were discriminating fuel characteristics of xeric, intermediate, submesic, and mesic site units. Discriminant function analysis provided an overall 64% cross-validation success rate using 138 undisturbed, randomly located plots. This method of characterizing fuel complexes may also be possible in other forested ecosystems where LECs or other ecological vegetation classifications have been developed.

Phenotypic Variation in Climate-Associated Traits of Red Spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.) along Elevation Gradients in the Southern Appalachian Mountains

Castanea ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
John R. Butnor ◽  
Brittany M. Verrico ◽  
Kurt H. Johnsen ◽  
Christopher A. Maier ◽  
Victor Vankus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phenotypic Variation ◽  
Appalachian Mountains ◽  
Picea Rubens ◽  
Red Spruce ◽  
Elevation Gradients ◽  
Southern Appalachian Mountains ◽  
Southern Appalachian
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