SPECIAL PAPER - FOREST VEGETATION OF THE KENTUCKY KARST PLAIN (KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE) - REVIEW AND SYNTHESIS

Literature on old-growth and second-growth forest vegetation of the Ke ntucky Karst Plain of Kentucky and Tennessee is reviewed, and this and other information is synthesized into a conceptual model that shows t he various types of climax ''associations'' along a topographic-moistu re gradient. Further, the model shows the relationship of the forest v egetation to (deep-soil) barrens and xeric limestone prairies, and to the agricultural activities of the anthropogenically-dominated landsca pe of this physiographic region.