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Stand Dynamics And Fire History Of A Southern Appalachian Pine-Hardwood Forest On Rainy Mountain, Chattahoochee National Forest, Georgia, U.S.A., Alex William Dye

Masters Theses

In the American Southeast, forest managers and conservationists are interested in evaluating how forest composition is changing in response to both human and natural disturbances. This study explored the stand dynamics of a pine-hardwood forest on Rainy Mountain in the Chattahoochee National Forest of Georgia over the last 115 years and analyzed the role fire has had as a disturbance in the forest. Increment cores were collected from trees in 30 plots, each 0.01 ha in area. The cores were used to determine date of establishment of each tree and create age structure charts for each plot and for the …