Ed: A site is usually taken to be a stand or a group of stands, but within a small area. It would be a patch or cluster of patches with certain soil and physiographic features that allow tree to grow larger than in other nearby areas where water, nutrients and lack of shelter from storms are more limiting.
It could be for just one species or several species (as measured by Rucker index). And yes, one could define it with respect to species richness or other characteristics besides tree height and circumference. I should stop now so that I have time to get ready for the Holidazle parade and the post parade performance of Hansel and Gretel. Lee At 06:49 AM 11/27/2009, you wrote: >ENTS, > >I don't really like the term Super Sites. I always think super with >respect to what? and what do you mean by site? Generally in the usage we >have been discussing here we have been referring to sites with >exceptionally large trees of a single species, or trees of a large size in >general. Really it could referee to a site in which trees were >exceptional in many other ways. Say a species like cucumbertree was >uncommon in the forest in a region. A location in which had numerous >cucumber trees or was dominated by cucumbertrees could reasonable be >considered a supersite with respect to cucumbertree. Similarly a >someplace could be considered a Super Site with respect to species >diversity, or with respect to great age, or a variety of other >parameters. So I guess I don't like the term because it could be applied >reasonably to such a variety of situations. > >I am just rambling now, because I got up too early today. > > >Ed Frank > >Check out my new >Blog: ><http://nature-web-network.blogspot.com/>http://nature-web-network.blogspot.com/ > >(and click on some of the ads) > >-- >Eastern Native Tree Society ><http://www.nativetreesociety.org>http://www.nativetreesociety.org >Send email to [email protected] >Visit this group at ><http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en>http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en >To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected]
