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Flood Tolerance and Related Characteristics of Trees of the Bottomland Forests of the Southern United States

Informally Refereed

Abstract

The Southern bottomland forests encompass about 12.5 million hectares (30.8 million acres) from Virginia, south to the sub-tropical hardwood forests of south Florida, west to eastern Texas and Oklahoma, and north up the Mississippi River Valley to southern Illinois and Indiana.

Keywords

bottomland

Citation

McKnight, J. Sid; Hook, Donal D.; Landgon, O. Gordon; Johnson, Robert L. 1980. Flood Tolerance and Related Characteristics of Trees of the Bottomland Forests of the Southern United States. In: Proceedings of a Workshop on Bottomland Hardwood Forest Wetlands of the Southeast. New Orleans, LA: USDA-Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station. 29-69.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/42960