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Hydrology and tree-distribution patterns of Karst Wetlands at Arnold Engineering Development Center, Tennessee

U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Investigations Report 96-4277

by W.J. Wolfe


Table of Contents

Abstract

Introduction

Purpose and scope

Acknowledgments

Study area

Karst features

Soils, vegetation, and climate

Hydrogeology

Hydrology

Site selection and data collection

Water levels and discharge

Geomorphic controls of wetland water regimes

Tree-distribution patterns

Transect locations and sampling methods

Flooding-duration and elevation distributions of selected tree species

Geomorphic and hydrologic controls on wetland-tree distribution

Summary and conclusions

Reference scited

Appendix 1. Common and scientific names of plants identified along vegetation transects

Appendix 2. Relative importance and elevation quartiles for tree species along vegetation transects in the Sinking Pondarea, Arnold Engineering DevelopmentCenter

 


 

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