AbstractsBiology & Animal Science

Vegetation succession and soil change in developing lowland ecosystems of eastern Canada.

by Gavin Thomas. Daly




Institution: McGill University
Department: Department of Botany.
Degree: PhD
Year: 1965
Keywords: Botany.; Plant succession  – Canada, Eastern.; Wetland ecology  – Canada, Eastern.; Nitrogen  – Fixation.; Alnus rugosa.; Soil ecology  – Canada, Eastern.
Record ID: 1568866
Full text PDF: http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile117580.pdf


Abstract

1. For the first time detailed phytosociological measurements, using objective methods have been made in a large number of lowland successional stands throughout eastern Canada. 2. Soil and soil surface organic matter samples were collected on a volume-weight basis for all stands studied. An increased use of bulk-density sampling methods is advocated as they allow the conversion of all nutrient percentage and parts per million analyses to actual weights par unit area profile depth, as was done in the present work. [...]