Albert J. Parker

TL;DR: The Topographic Relative Moisture Index (TRMI) as mentioned in this paper is designed to indicate the relative soil moisture availability among sites in mountain terrain, which is a summed scalar index of four slope parameters: topographic position, slope aspect, steepness, and slope configuration.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors characterize soil physical properties under three land-use classes (forest, pasture, and managed lawn) in the southern Blue Ridge Mountains of southwestern North Carolina, and a total of 90 points were sampled (30 in each land use class) throughout a 983 km 2 study area.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of land use and watershed geomorphic characteristics on low-flow variability in the southern Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and Georgia was assessed, and watershed forest cover demonstrated a consistent, significant positive relationship with low flows, despite the higher evapotranspiration rates associated with forest compared with other land covers and despite the relatively small range of disturbance in this study area.

TL;DR: It is concluded that climate change has not contributed sig-nificantly to observed changes in forest composition, and the authors restrict their focus to a single element of climate: increasing temperature since the end of the Little Ice Age ca.

TL;DR: Interannual variability in allele frequencies of surviving seedlings may account for the absence of genetic structure in populations of two varieties of Pinus clausa.