...Woods lies in the Tipton Till Plain section of the Central Till Plain Natural Region. This region of Indiana was comprised of beech-maple forests with scattered sections of oak-hickory forests during presettlement times (Homoya et al. 1985). It is now mostly agricultural land with scattered woodlots.

The composition of tree species in a forest indicates much about its overall structure and habitat. In August of 2005, a systematic point-centered-quarter (PCQ) technique was used to provide basic statistics, e.g., frequency, basal area, and density, of the tree composition of the upland forest at Yuhas Woods. From these measures relative frequency (RFREQ, the percent frequency of one species per ha compared to all species), relative basal area (RBA, the percent basal area for one species compared to the total basal area for all species), and relative density (RDEN, the percent density of one species compared...

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