Vegetation of Northern New Jersey Before European Settlement
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in The American Midland Naturalist
- Vol. 105 (1) , 1-12
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2425004
Abstract
The vegetation of northern New Jersey before European settlement was reconstructed from early descriptions and land surveys. The land was forested except for scattered lowland meadows and clearings made by Indians. Several oak (Quercus) species dominated the forests. Chestnut (Castanea dentata) was common in steeper areas and hickory (Carya spp.) was common throughout. Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) and the northern hardwoods, such as sugar maple (Acer saccharum) and beech (Fagus grandifolia) were present but not abundant. Overall the dominants of the 17th- and early 18th-century upland forests were similar to those in today''s forests, but with more chestnut and hickory and less birth (Betula spp.) and maple.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- The Upland Forest Continuum in Northern New JerseyEcology, 1966
- Recent Changes of Climate and Vegetation in Southern New England and Adjacent New YorkJournal of the Arnold Arboretum, 1937
- The Original Forest Types of Southern New EnglandEcological Monographs, 1935