Flood Tolerance and Related Characteristics of Trees of the Bottomland Forests of the Southern United States

J. Sid McKnight; Donal D. Hook; O. Gordon Landgon; Robert L. Johnson

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Flood Tolerance and Related Characteristics of Trees of the Bottomland Forests of the Southern United States

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Authors:

J. Sid McKnight, Donal D. Hook, O. Gordon Landgon, Robert L. Johnson

Year:

1980

Type:

Scientific Journal

Station:

Southern Research Station

Source:

In: Proceedings of a Workshop on Bottomland Hardwood Forest Wetlands of the Southeast. New Orleans, LA: USDA-Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station. 29-69.

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Abstract

The Southern bottomland forests encompass about 12.5 million hectares (30.8 million acres) from Virginia, south to the sub-tropical hardwood forests of south Florida, west to eastern Texas and Oklahoma, and north up the Mississippi River Valley to southern Illinois and Indiana.

Keywords

bottomland

Citation

McKnight, J. Sid; Hook, Donal D.; Landgon, O. Gordon; Johnson, Robert L. 1980. Flood Tolerance and Related Characteristics of Trees of the Bottomland Forests of the Southern United States. In: Proceedings of a Workshop on Bottomland Hardwood Forest Wetlands of the Southeast. New Orleans, LA: USDA-Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station. 29-69.