Paper · 2018 · Natural Areas Journal

Tree Species Composition of an Acidic Sandy Flatwoods in Berrien County, Michigan, USA

Robert Tatina

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Abstract

The trees in a young plant community on abandoned agricultural land in Berrien County, Michigan, were tallied by size classes and found to be dominated by red maple (Acer rubrum) and black gum (Nyssa sylvatica). Soils were acidic and sandy. The community fits the Natural Resources Conservation Service Ecological Site Description of an acidic sandy flatwoods. Based on size class distributions, this community may be transitional to a beech-maple forest.

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The community was dominated by red maple and black gum.

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“The trees in a young plant community on abandoned agricultural land in Berrien County, Michigan, were tallied by size classes and found to be dominated by red maple (Acer rubrum) and black gum (Nyssa sylvatica)”

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Observationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

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The community fits an acidic sandy flatwoods ecological site description.

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“The community fits the Natural Resources Conservation Service Ecological Site Description of an acidic sandy flatwoods”

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Size classes suggest a possible transition toward beech-maple forest.

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may be transitional to a beech-maple foreste0

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“trees”

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“Based on size class distributions, this community may be transitional to a beech-maple forest”

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