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Pattern and Process in a Forested Ecosystem: Disturbance, Development and the Steady State Based on the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study
Pattern and Process in a Forested Ecosystem Disturbance Development and the Steady State Based on the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study Author:F.Herbert Bormann, Gene E. Likens This volume draws on the Hubbard Brook Experiment to present an integrated picture of the structure, function, and development over time of the northern hardwood ecosystem in northern New England. Topics covered include important ecological problems such as the limits to primary production and biomass accumulation, biotic regulation of energy fl... more »ow and biogeochemistry, the relationship between species diversity and stability, variations in biogeochemical behaviour over time, and the effect of the weathering-erosion interaction on productivity.« less