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Vegetation Of The Big South Fork Cumberland River, Kentucky And Tennessee, John Marcus Safley Jr.
Vegetation Of The Big South Fork Cumberland River, Kentucky And Tennessee, John Marcus Safley Jr.
Masters Theses
The water shed of the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River was studied in the summer of 1969 to determine the relationships existing between soil, site, and vegetational characteristics. Two hundred-and-seventy tenth acre plots were established where in trees of overstory size (greater than 5 inches dbh in 2 inch size classes) and under story size (4 1/2 feet tall; 1-5 inches dbh) were measured; herbs, shrubs, seedlings, and vines were sampled within one- hundredth acre subplots. Various soil and site characters were measured for each plot.
Soils were found to be stonier, deeper, and less sandy on lower …