Title:

Long-term plant invasion in disturbed and undisturbed forests: species richness, frequency, and abundance

Author(s):

Huebner, Cynthia D.

Publication Year:

2021

How to Cite:

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Huebner, Cynthia D. 2021. Long-term plant invasion in disturbed and undisturbed forests: species richness, frequency, and abundance. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2020-0004

Abstract:

This data publication contains understory vegetation measured on 23 80+ years of age mature second-growth stands and 12 15-year old clearcut stands on the Cheat Ranger District of the Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia, USA. These data were sampled every 5-6 years from 2001-2017 (for mature stands) and 2002-2018 for clearcut stands. Stands were randomly selected but stratified across three land types that followed a moisture gradient. Data include plant species cover for both native and invasive nonnative plants in 2002 and 2018, as well as stand-level measurements of frequency and cover of invasive plant species measured multiple times between 2001 and 2018.

Keywords:

biota; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Ecology; Forest & Plant Health; Invasive species; Inventory, Monitoring, & Analysis; Monitoring; Natural Resource Management & Use; Forest management; Restoration; biotic resistance; disturbance; ecological land type; invasion patterns; invasive plant; invasion model; invasion stage; long-term monitoring; moisture gradient; West Virginia; Cheat Ranger District; Monongahela National Forest

Related publications:

• Huebner, Cynthia D.; Tobin, Patrick C. 2006. Invasibility of mature and 15-year-old deciduous forests by exotic plants. Plant Ecology. 186: 57-68. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-006-9112-9 https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/18768
• Huebner, Cynthia D. 2021. Patterns of invasive plant abundance in disturbed versus undisturbed forests within three land types over 16 years. Diversity and Distributions. 27(1): 130-143. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13175

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