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The Seen and Unseen World of the Fallen Tree

United States Department of Agriculture

Forest Service

United States Department of the Interior

Bureau of Land Management

General Technical

Report PNW-164

March 1984

Cover: Ants view of the seedling, moss, lichen, and mushroom cover on the surface of a fallen class III Douglas-fir tree.

Authors

CHRIS MASER  U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management  Forestry Sciences Laboratory Corvallis, Oregon 97331

JAMES M TRAPPE US. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Corvallis, Oregon 97331

STEVEN P. CLINE Oregon State University School of Forestry, Department of Forest Science, Corvallis, Oregon 97331

KERMIT CROMACK, JR. Oregon State University School of Forestry, Department of Forest Science Corvallis, Oregon 97331

HELMUT BLASCHKE Lehrstuhl fur Forstbotanrk Unrversrtat Munchen Amalrenstrasse 52 D-8000 Munchen 40  West Germany

JAMES R. SEDELL U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station Forestry Sciences Laboratory Corvallis, Oregon 97331

FREDERICK J. SWANSON US. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station Forestry Sciences Laboratory Corvallis, Oregon 97331

 

The Seen and Unseen World

of the Fallen Tree

Chris Maser

James M. Trappe

Technical Editors

Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Forest Service

General Technical Report PNW-164

March 1984

Published in cooperation with

the Bureau of Land Management

U.S. Department of the Interior


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Abstract - Page 15

Page 16-31

Page 32-46

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