Marc D. Abrams, David A. Orwig, A 300-Year History of Disturbance and Canopy Recruitment for Co-Occurring White Pine and Hemlock on the Allegheny Plateau, USA, Journal of Ecology, Vol. 84, No. 3 (Jun., 1996), pp. 353-363
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Abrams et al. (1996) studied this question.