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Article: New science study findings recently were reported by researchers at Ohio University.
- Article from:
- Food & Farm Week
- Article date:
- November 19, 2009
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"The assembly of a forest flora on sites abandoned from agriculture is potentially limited by the physical and chemical suitability of soils. This paper describes the post-agricultural development of soil in deciduous forest sites to gauge its importance in limiting a second-growth forest flora," scientists in the United States report.
"Location Northern Delaware and south-eastern Pennsylvania, USA. A chronosequence of 99 second-growth forest sites was assembled in the Piedmont region. Stand age ranged from 0-20 to > 100 years since canopy closure, as determined from historical aerial photographs. Seventy-four sites are likely to have experienced cultivation ...