Spatial patterns of ice storm disturbance on a forested landscape in the Appalachian Mountains, Virginia Academic Article

abstract

• Ice storms (major freezing rain events) periodically disturb forests in eastern North America. The damage may vary spatially, especially in complex terrain. This study uses satellite imagery to investigate spatial heterogeneity of forest damage caused by ice storms that affected the Appalachian Mountains, Virginia during 1994. The results display a region-scale (southwest-to-northeast) gradient in damage that apparently corresponds to a gradient in the depth of ice that accumulated during the storms. Damage also varied topographically, particularly by aspect. Damage was most extensive on east-, southeast- and south-facing slopes; at middle elevations; and on slopes of moderate steepness. The Authors. Journal compilation Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers) 2007.

authors

• Lafon, Charles

published proceedings

• AREA

author list (cited authors)

• Stueve, K. M., Lafon, C. W., & Isaacs, R. E.

citation count

• 23

complete list of authors

• Stueve, Kirk M||Lafon, Charles W||Isaacs, Rachel E

publication date

• March 2007

publisher

• Wiley  Publisher

published in

• Area  Journal

keywords

• Forest Disturbance
• Freezing Rain
• Ice Storm
• NDVI
• Topography
• Virginia

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2007.00722.x

start page

• 20

end page

• 30

volume

• 39

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2007.00722.x