Nerstrand Big Woods State Park is one of the largest remaining fragments of maple-basswood forest in Minnesota. The park was created in 1945 through consolidation of 147 individual privately-owned parcels each with known land-use histories. For my Master's of Science thesis I sampled the understory of thirty of the forested parcels to determine the influence of history on the density of wood nettle (Laportea canadensis) and co-occurring understory species.
Publications
Thesis (2000) available at the University of Minnesota library.
Datasets
None currently available.