Developing Species-Age Cohorts from Forest Inventory and Analysis Data to Parameterize a Forest Landscape Model

Figure 3

Age distributions for the 12 most common tree species at Fort Drum, New York, USA, based on age-diameter equations developed from FIA site trees: red maple (Acer rubrum), black cherry (Prunus serotina), eastern white pine (Pinus strobus), gray birch (Betula populifolia), eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), sugar maple (Acer saccharum), American elm (Ulmus americana), northern red oak (Quercus rubra), white ash (Fraxinus americana), yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis), and American beech (Fagus grandifolia).