Above-Ground Biomass Accumulation and Net Primary Production During the First 70 Years of Succession in Populus grandidentata Stands on Poor Sites in Northern Lower Michigan

Abstract

In recent years there have been many studies of biomass and primary production in forest ecosystems, but because forest ecosystems are long-lived, and because there are relatively few data sets from permanent sample plots or artificial chronosequences documenting changes in individual forest stands, few estimates have been made of change in biomass and net primary production over long periods in the life of a forest (Peet Chapter 20).