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FIRE ISLAND
Ecological Studies of the Sunken Forest, Fire Island National Seashore, New York NPS Scientific Monograph No. 7 |
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1: GEOLOGY AND CLIMATE OF FIRE ISLAND
Methods
Geology and Hydrology
Climate
Chapter 2: VEGETATIONAL PATTERNS OF THE ATLANTIC BARRIER ISLANDS
Vegetational Zonation
Species Distribution
Chapter 3: VEGETATIONAL PATTERNS OF THE SUNKEN FOREST AREA
Methods
The Dune and Swale Community
The Sunken Forest Community
The Salt Marsh Community
Results and Discussion
Pattern and process
Dunes and swale
Salt marsh
Chapter 4: SUCCESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
Chapter 5: BIOMASS, PRODUCTION, AND SURFACE AREA RELATIONSHIPS
Methods
Vegetation
Living Biomass
Nondestructive Methods
Harvesting Techniques
Tree Biomass and Production Estimation
Shrub and Herb Layers
Errors
Organic Debris
Results and Discussion
Vegetation
Biomass
Net primary production
Surface area relations
Organic debris
Above-ground organic debris
Litter fall
Soil organic matter
Chapter 6: A COMPARISON WITH OTHER MARITIME FORESTS
Chapter 7: BIOGEOCHEMICAL RELATIONSHIPS: INTRASYSTEM COMPONENTS
Organic Compartment
Methods
Results and Discussion
Available Nutrient Compartment and Soil Mineral Compartment
Methods
Results and Discussion: Available Nutrient Compartment
Results and Discussion: Rock and Soil Mineral Compartment
Chapter 8: BIOGEOCHEMICAL RELATIONSHIPS: INTRASYSTEM TRANSFERS
Weathering
Uptake
Decomposition
Methods: Litter Analysis
Results and Discussion
Leaching
Methods
Results and Discussion
Chapter 9: BIOGEOCHEMICAL RELATIONSHIPS: INTERSYSTEM CYCLES
Methods
Results and Discussion
Chapter 10: GENERAL SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
Appendix I: Dune-swale and Sunken Forest Vegetational Analysis Methods and Data (omitted from the online edition)
Appendix II: Dimension Analysis of Woody Plants Data (omitted from the online edition)
Appendix III: Cation Concentrations and Distributions in Biomass, Primary Production, and Soils (omitted from the online edition)
Appendix IV: Period Collection Data (omitted from the online edition)
Appendix V: Scientific and Common Names
INDEX (omitted from the online edition)
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Art, Henry Warren.
Ecological studies of the Sunken Forest, Fire Island National Seashore.
New York.(Scientific monograph series no. 7)
Bibliography: p.
Sup. of Docs. no.: I 29.80:7
I. Forest ecology—New York (State)—Sunken Forest. 2. Sunken Forest, N. Y. I. Title. II. Series: United States. National Park Service. Scientific monograph series; no. 7.
QK177.A75 574.5'264 75-619113
TABLES
2 Dune and swale community total vegetation cover
3 Herb analyses
4 Tree analysis
5 Shrub analysis
6 Transect Y
7 Dead tree analysis
8 Tree density distributions
9 Tree basal area distributions
10 Tree ages
11 Ecosystem analysis plot, trees and shrub layers
12 Ecosystem analysis plot, trees herbaceous layer cover
13 Summary of biomass, production, and dimension relations
14 Dimension relations, biomass, and production distribution of tree layer
15 Shrub layer dimension relations and biomass distribution
16 Biomass distribution and primary production
17 Organic debris
18 Litter fall in basket collectors
19 Summary of cations in the organic compartment
20 Herbaceous layer biomass and nutrient inventory
21 Cation distributions
22 Summary of cations
23 Cations in the primary production
24 Annual cation transfers
25 Meteorologic inputs
26 Cation concentrations and ratios in the nutrient cycle
27 Cation concentrations of some temperate region soil horizons
28 Comparisons of cation concentrations
29 Cation concentrations in the biomasses of forested ecosystems
30 Leaching and litter fall
31 Annual cation sources
A-1 Vegetational analysis
FIGURES
2 Fire Island stratigraphy well
3 Fire Island inlet
4 Fire Island transect
5 Barrier beach hydrology
6 Precipitation and water table relations
7 Climatic maps of the Eastern United States
8 Mean relative humidity and temperature
9 Offshore wind distribution
10 Onshore wind distribution
11 Salt-pruned American holly
12 Coastal forest species distribution
13 Coastal dune species distribution
14 Vegetation map of the Sunken Forest area
15 Aerial photograph of the Sunken Forest
16 Annual plants growing in drift line
17 Beachgrass on seaward face of the primary dune
18 Beach plum and bayberry in the salt-wind shadow
19 Bearberry forming a dense spreading mat
20 Hudsonia tomentosa and Solidago sempervirens
21 Transect A species cover
22 Transect A cover, space, and diversity
23 A SO-year old pitch pine
24 The crest of the secondary dune
25 The salt-pruned, flat top of the Sunken Forest canopy
26 American holly, black gum, sassafras, and shadbush
27 Aralia nudicaulis in bloom
28 Annual litter fall
29 Smilacina stellata in bloom
30 Swamp honeysuckle
31 Dead and dying Nyssa sylvatica
32 Salt marsh
33 Salt marsh transect
34 Stumps in the Great South Bay
35 Dredge Island
36 Successional trends
37 Arctostaphylos and Hudsonia
38 Tree diameter and height relationships
39 Excavated root system of a Shadbush
40 Branches of a mature American holly
41 Soil organic matter, exchangeable cations, and cation exchange capacity relations
42 Model of nutrient cycling in terrestrial ecosystems
43 Amounts of cations in litter fall
44 Amounts of cations in gross leaching
45 Precipitation cation inputs
46 Wind direction during rain
47 Ground-water cation concentrations
A-1 Vegetation sampling methods
D-1 Precipitation distribution
D-2 Cation concentrations in precipitation
D-3 Annual wood and bark litter fall
D-4 Annual litter fall
D-5 Litter fall: Fruits and flowers
D-6 Gross leaching cation concentrations
D-7 Gross leaching cation concentrations
Dedicated to
Walter Oakley
whose life is inseparable from the forest's.
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