Forest Succession (NS)

Drafting

Forest Ecosystem Classification for Nova Scotia (2022): Field Guide
Peter Neily et al., Forestry and Wildlife Branch of NS Dep Natural Resources and Renewables. In the description for each of the 122 Forest Vegetation Types, there is a section on “Successional Dynamics”. An earlier version of this work provides more of an overview of the successional processes

H6 INTRODUCTION TO FORESTS
pp 480-502 in Natural History of Nova Scotia, Volume I, 2013. Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History. “The classification of the forest habitats in the Natural History of Nova Scotia reflects the relative dominanance of hardwoods (deciduous trees) and softwoods (coniferous trees). The descriptions of these habitats are further divided into tree-species associations that reflect combinations of the dominant forest-stand types in Nova Scotia.
Hardwood-forest Habitat (H6.1)
1. Red Maple, Red Oak, White Birch
2. Sugar Maple, Yellow Birch, American Beech
3. Sugar Maple, American Elm
Softwood-forest Habitat (H6.2)
1. White Spruce 5. Black Spruce, Larch
2. Spruce, Fir, Pine 6. Spruce, Hemlock, Pine
3. Pine 7. Balsam Fir
4. Spruce, Fir
Mixedwood-forest Habitat (H6.3)
1. Spruce, Fir, Pine–Maple, Birch
2. Spruce, Fir–Maple
3. White Spruce, Fir–Maple, Birch (Coastal)”
Successional sequences are described for each of 10 tree-species associations listed above.

Drivers of change in the temperate-boreal refugium of Cape Breton Highlands National Park
Hannah Kosick, 2023. MSc thesis, Dept. Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland