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Historic Log Buildings As Archives Of Past Forest Ecology, Kristen K. De Graauw
Historic Log Buildings As Archives Of Past Forest Ecology, Kristen K. De Graauw
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
This dissertation is composed of three separate but related manuscripts with the common theme of using historic log buildings from the central Appalachian Mountain region of eastern North America as ecological archives. In Chapter 1, I explore the biases, limitations, and ecological applications of tree-ring data from historic log buildings. European immigrants selected trees from a forested stand based on species, log sizes, and construction locations. Despite this selection bias, ecological information can be gleaned from historic log buildings, which offer a complementary record of past forest ecology and represent a site type that is not often associated with old-growth …