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Patterns Of Species Segregation As Related To Topographic Form And Aspect, Homero Cabrera
Patterns Of Species Segregation As Related To Topographic Form And Aspect, Homero Cabrera
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The purpose of this study is twofold. The first aim is to provide a quantitative description of the natural vegetation of a portion of Ash Log Mountain, Campbell County, Tennessee. The second aim is to test the hypothesis of homogenisty of the Mixed Mesophytic forest community, as proposed by Braun, with respect to minor topographic and aspectual variation of the landscape. The study area lies in Campbell County, Tennessee, in the Cumberland Mountains.
As a whole, the Southern Appalachian Region contains greater than twice the proportion of commercial forest lands than does the remainder of the nation. These forest lands …