FORAST Database [electronic resource] : Forest Responses to Anthropogenic Stress (FORAST).
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- Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Science, 1995.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy - Additional Creators
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy. Office of Science, United States. Environmental Protection Agency, United States. Office of the United States Secretary of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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- Summary
- The Forest Responses to Anthropogenic Stress (FORAST) project was designed to determine whether evidence of alterations of long-term growth patterns of several species of eastern forest trees was apparent in tree-ring chronologies from within the region and to identify environmental variables that were temporally or spatially correlated with any observed changes. The project was supported principally by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with additional support from the National Park Service. The FORAST project was initiated in 1982 as exploratory research to document patterns of radial growth of forest trees during the previous 50 or more years within 15 states in the northeastern United States. Radial growth measurements from more than 7,000 trees are provided along with data on a variety of measured and calculated indices of stand characteristics (basal area, density, and competitive indices); climate (temperature, precipitation, and drought); and anthropogenic pollutants (state and regional emissions of SO2 and NOX, ozone monitoring data, and frequency of atmospheric-stagnation episodes and atmospheric haze). These data were compiled into a single database to facilitate exploratory analysis of tree growth patterns and responses to local and regional environmental conditions. The project objectives, experimental design, and documentation of procedures for assessing data collected in the 3-year research project are reported in McLaughlin et al. (1986).
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- E 1.99:db1005
db1005 - Subject(s)
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- Published through SciTech Connect.
01/01/1995.
"db1005"
S. B. McLaughlin; D. J. Downing; T. J. Blasing; B. L. Jackson; D. J. Pack; D. N. Duvick; L. K. Mann; T. W. Doyle.
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