# overview
Spatial and temporal patterns of disturbances, including fires, ice storms, insect outbreaks, hurricanes, and mammalian herbivory

Influences of disturbances and environmental gradients on vegetation patterns

Vegetation history and succession

Eastern North American forests and Scandinavian treeline

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Classification And Regression Tree Model

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3709 Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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University of Tennessee at Knoxville - (Knoxville, Tennessee, United States)

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Emory and Henry College - (Emory, Virginia, United States)

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University of Tennessee at Knoxville - (Knoxville, Tennessee, United States)

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Association of Former Students University-Level Distinguished Achievement Award, The

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Association of Former Students College-Level Teaching Distinguished Achievement Award, The

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Montague Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) Scholar

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Fire history and its relations with land use and climate over three centuries in the central Appalachian Mountains, USA

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Dendroclimatic relationships and possible implications for mountain birch and Scots pine at treeline in northern Sweden through the 21st century

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Simulating the impacts of southern pine beetle and fire on the dynamics of xerophytic pine landscapes in the southern Appalachians

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Stand dynamics of a yellow-poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera L.) forest in the Appalachian Mountains, Virginia, USA

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Computer-based synthetic data to assess the tree delineation algorithm from airborne LiDAR survey

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Modeling the effects of fire on the long-term dynamics and restoration of yellow pine and oak forests in the southern Appalachian Mountains

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Climatic and topographic controls on patterns of fire in the southern and central Appalachian Mountains, USA

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Restoration of Southern Pine Forests After the Southern Pine Beetle

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Integrating Agriculture and Ecosystems to Find Suitable Adaptations to Climate Change

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Evaluating the dendroclimatological potential of central Appalachian Table Mountain pine (Pinus pungens LAMB.)

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Spatial patterns of ice storm disturbance on a forested landscape in the Appalachian Mountains, Virginia

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Geographic variations in fine-scale vegetation patterns: aspect preferences of montane pine stands over Southern Appalachian landscapes

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Comparing two methods for aging trees with suppressed, diffuse-porous rings (Betula pubescens ssp czerepanovii)

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Using dendrochronology to identify major ice storm events in oak forests of southwestern Virginia

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Historical Fire Regimes and Stand Dynamics of Xerophytic Pine-Oak Stands in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, Virginia, USA

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Ericaceous shrub expansion and its relation to fire history in temperate pine-oak (Pinus-Quercus) forests of the eastern USA

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Ice storms generate spatially heterogeneous damage patterns at the watershed scale in forested landscapes

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Fire in the American South: Vegetation Impacts, History, and Climatic Relations

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Simulating the reciprocal interaction of forest landscape structure and southern pine beetle herbivory using LANDIS

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Landscape modeling for forest restoration planning and assessment: Lessons from the southern Appalachian Mountains

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Effects of ice storms, southern pine beetle infestation, and fire on table mountain pine forests of southwestern Virginia

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Factors structuring the treeline ecotone in Fennoscandia

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Evaluating Southern Appalachian forest dynamics without eastern hemlock: consequences of herbivory by the hemlock wooly adelgid.

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PATTERNS OF ICE ACCUMULATION AND FOREST DISTURBANCE DURING TWO ICE STORMS IN SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA

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Advancing Dendrochronological Studies of Fire in the United States

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Weather type classification of wildfire ignitions in the central Gulf Coast, United States

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Changing fire regimes and old-growth forest succession along a topographic gradient in the Great Smoky Mountains

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Relationships of Fire and Precipitation Regimes in Temperate Forests of the Eastern United States

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Reconstructing fire history: An exercise in dendrochronology

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The North American tree-ring fire-scar network

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Plant responses to global change: next generation biogeography

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FIRE HISTORY OF A TEMPERATE FOREST WITH AN ENDEMIC FIRE-DEPENDENT HERB

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A CSR classification of tree life history strategies and implications for ice storm damage

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WESTERN RANGE BOUNDARIES OF FLOODPLAIN TREES IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES

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Effects of agricultural soil loss on forest succession rates and tree diversity in east Tennessee

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The contemporary fire regime of the central Appalachian Mountains and its relation to climate

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Spatial patterns of fire occurrence in the central Appalachian mountains and implications for wildland fire management

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Simulation Modeling as a Tool for Understanding the Landscape Ecology of Southern Pine Beetle Infestations in Southern Appalachian Forests

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Ice Storms in Central Hardwood Forests: The Disturbance Regime, Spatial Patterns, and Vegetation Influences

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A simple stochastic weather generator for ecological modeling

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Ice-storm disturbance and long-term forest dynamics in the Adirondack Mountains

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Fire history, related to climate and land use in three southern Appalachian landscapes in the eastern United States.

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Disturbance after Disturbance: Combined Effects of Two Successive Hurricanes on Forest Community Structure

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Bottomland hardwood forest growth and stress response to hydroclimatic variation: evidence from dendrochronology and tree ring Delta C-13 values

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SIMULATING THE INTERACTIONS OF FOREST STRUCTURE, FIRE REGIME, AND PLANT INVASION IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS USING LANDIS

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Modeling Long-Term Effects of Altered Fire Regimes following Southern Pine Beetle Outbreaks (North Carolina)

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Influences of animal activity on treeline position and pattern: Implications for treeline responses to climate change

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Three centuries of fire in montane pine-oak stands on a temperate forest landscape

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Forest disturbance by ice storms in Quercus forests of the southern Appalachian Mountains, USA

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Geometrid moth outbreaks and their climatic relations in northern Sweden

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Review of forest landscape models: Types, methods, development and applications

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Fire Ecology and Management in Eastern Broadleaf and Appalachian Forests

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Review of Fire History in the Appalachian Region

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United States Department of Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Geography; 3147 TAMU

# etdChairOf[].label
Hanson, Alison Anne (2017-05). Distribution Patterns in Appalachian Table Mountain Pine and Pitch Pine Stands. Master's Thesis.