Hurricane Floyd Impacts on Loblolly Pine Leaf Area and Canopy Nutrient Losses (Forest Science Laboratory - Forest Productivity Research Information Sheet No. FSL-37)
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Item information
- Title:
- Hurricane Floyd Impacts on Loblolly Pine Leaf Area and Canopy Nutrient Losses (Forest Science Laboratory - Forest Productivity Research Information Sheet No. FSL-37)
- Description:
- Hurricane Floyd brushed the coast of South Carolina in September 1999 before making landfall at Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 2 hurricane. Maximum wind speed at Cape Fear was 103 miles per hour (MPH). The maximum reported wind gust at the North Charleston Airport was 67 MPH and sustained wind speed (for over 2 minutes) was 51 MPH. Similar wind speeds were experienced as far inland as Florence, South Carolina (Pasch et al. 1999). As this hurricane passed through Berkeley County on September 15-16, many green needles, branches and tops were displaced from trees in the Powell Bay Clonal Screening Trial. Because this study was undertaken to quantify nutrient uptake following fertilization in the winter of 1999, it was important to estimate the amount of leaf area and nutrients that were prematurely lost due to Hurricane Floyd.
- Topics:
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Forestry
- Subjects:
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Forests and forestry
Hurricane damage
Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda)
- Original Format:
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Typescript
- Extent:
- 4 pages
- Item identifier:
- mc00496-004-bx0019-009-FSL-37
- Producer:
- MeadWestvaco (Firm) more info on MeadWestvaco (Firm)
- Created Date:
- Genre:
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Reports
- Names:
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Forest Science Laboratory (Summerville, S.C.)
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MeadWestvaco (Firm) more info on MeadWestvaco (Firm)
- Location:
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Summerville (S.C.)
- Digital Project:
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University Archives
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- Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
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- MeadWestvaco Research Reports, 1945-2006 (MC00496) held by Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
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