Presettlement piedmont forests: patternsof composition and disturbance in central Georgia
Biogeography ; Drought ; Ecology ; Fire ; Forest ; Georgia (USA) ; Historical geography ; Human impact ; Land use ; Piedmont ; Soil erosion ; United States of America ; Vegetation dynamics
Reconstructing presettlement vegetation from land survey records permits an assessment of the environmental gradients that were most important in organizing forest composition and of the role of disturbance, natural or human, in this composition.