Forest, oxidant-induced change

Miller, P. R. Oxidant-induced community change in a mixed conifer forest. Adv. Chem. Ser. 122 101-117, 1973. 

A viable example of the widespread and dramatic change that pollution can initiate on a plant community is found in the conifer forest of the San Bernardino mountains. This vivid example of what photochemical oxidants can do to initiate biological change provides an instructive base for future speculations. Paul Miller covers oxidant-induced community change in a mixed conifer forest. 

Oxidant-Induced Community Change in a Mixed Conifer Forest... 

The present scarcity of data only allows limited speculation about the community changes expected to be induced by oxidant air pollution in the coniferous forest. An enormous amount of new information must be compiled for each important overstory and understory species in a life table format. This procedure identifies the relative importance of the various mortality factors which act upon each age or size class of each important species in the mixture from seedling to maturity. 

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