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Using FIA Data to Assess Current Status and Predict Future Overstory Species Composition based on Current Woody Understory Species Composition
| GLNF CESU Project #: |
SUNY-USFS-01 |
| Partners: |
State University of New York and USDA Forest Service |
| Project Contact: |
Christopher Nowak canowak@esf.edu |
| Agency Contact: |
Todd Ristau tristau@fs.fed.us and Susan Stout sstout@fs.fed.us |
| Project Funding: |
$44,905 |
| Project Dates: |
08/30/2007-12/31/2008 |
| Project Abstract: |
The purpose of this project is to describe tree species diversity by FIA forest types and stand ages across Pennsylvania using a variety of diversity measures; to compare understory and overstory diversity measures using community similarity measures; to compare the residual stands using the prescription in SILVAH to that if a 1-inch diameter limit cut were done. The University and the Forest Service both desire to sustain the woody species diversity of Great Lake and Northern Ecosystems. It is in our mutual interest to share existing data and expertise to analyze probable changes in diversity and to train students to understand these likely changes. It is further in our mutual interest, to the extant practicable, to help managers and policy makers avert decisions that will narrow species diversity in these forests. Understanding patterns of diversity and their relationship with disturbance will help us develop tolls to achieve that objective. |
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