Undergraduate Abstract

Glenna Lee
August 1995

Soil Chemistry and Nutrition of Loblolly/Shortleaf Pine in Southeastern United States

A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment
of the requirements for the degree of

BACHELOR OF ARTS

In

Environmental Studies Program
University of Nevada Las Vegas

by

Glenna Lee

Summer 1995

Thesis Adviser: Craig Palmer
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and
Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies at UNLV

ABSTRACT

The Forest Health Monitoring, a component of EPA'S Environmental Monitoring Assessment Program has conducted a 2 year study (1992 and 1993) on the Loblolly/Shortleaf Pine in the Southeastern United States. Data collected from the study were then separated into two biogeographic areas, the Piedmont region and the Coastal Plain. The data set was analyzed using a stepwise multiple regression technique. Data from the Piedmont Region were adequate for construction of a model of primary factors influencing growth and foliar nitrogen in LoblollylShortleaf Pine. Data from the Coastal Plain were not adequate for construction of such a model. This was unexpected since the sampling designs were similar.