The Shrub Continua of the Southern Wisconsin Upland Forest |
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acre apparently available water available water capacity blackberry canopy choke cherry compositional gradient considered continuum cover Curtis decreases determine diameter dominance dry forest dry-mesic forest effect England entire express extremely feet Fernald Figure five forest group gives Goff grape gray dogwood hazel inches at DBH inches in height includes increase indicates individual influence largely less light limited major maximum means measure mesic deep-shade forest mesic medium-shade forest mesic-oak forest method milacres per milacre modal optimum overstory basal area peak importance plots poison ivy portion position prairie presence Quebec range ranks raspberry reaches reduced relative represents result rock Rubus sampling seedling density segment shade shrub importance values shrub species soil southern Wisconsin upland southward stands stems study area tolerance tree types vegetation Wisconsin upland forest woodbine woods xeric