Novel and Lost Forests in the Upper Midwestern United States, from New Estimates of Settlement-Era Composition, Stem Density, and Biomass.

EuroAmerican land-use and its legacies have transformed forest structure and composition across the United States (US). More accurate reconstructions of historical states are critical to understanding the processes governing past, current, and future forest dynamics. Here we present new gridded (8x8...

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Main Authors: Simon J Goring, David J Mladenoff, Charles V Cogbill, Sydne Record, Christopher J Paciorek, Stephen T Jackson, Michael C Dietze, Andria Dawson, Jaclyn Hatala Matthes, Jason S McLachlan, John W Williams
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5147790?pdf=render