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Season of Fine Woody Debris Death Affects Colonization of Saproxylic Coleoptera

The Coleopterists Bulletin, 2014
A study was conducted to explore the effect of season on colonization of dead twigs by beetles in a Louisiana secondary forest. Previous research showed that twigs cut during spring yielded many specimens and species. The present companion study utilized twigs averaging 14 mm in diameter cut from one tree of Quercus falcata Michaux (southern red oak ...
Ferro, Michael L., Gimmel, Matthew L.
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Decomposition of Fine Woody Debris from Main Tree Species in Lowland Oak Forests

Polish Journal of Ecology, 2015
Decomposition is an important carbon flux that must be accounted for in estimates of forest ecosystem carbon balance. Aim of this research is to provide estimate of fine woody debris decomposition rates for different tree species and sample sizes also taking into account the influence of specific microsite meteorological conditions on decomposition ...
Ostrogović Sever, Maša Zorana, Jazbec, Anamarija, Marjanović, Hrvoje, Balenović, Ivan, Sever, Krunoslav   +4 more
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Woody Debris as a Source of Fine Particulate Organic Matter in Coniferous Forest Stream Ecosystems

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 1986
The potential contribution of woody debris to fine particulate organic matter pools (0.45 μm ≤ FROM < 1 mm) was investigated in a coniferous forest stream ecosystem in western Oregon. The amount of wetted surface area of both large (>10 cm) and fine woody debris (1–10 cm) was 0.018 and 0.069 m2∙m−2 stream bed, respectively, during summer base ...
G. Milton Ward, Nicholas G. Aumen
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Effects of fine woody debris on arthropod communities in the NJ Pinelands

2020
Climate change is modifying weather patterns, including the frequency and intensity of storms. The ecological consequences of these storms have primarily been studied for warm weather storms, such as hurricanes. During the winter of 2017-18, New Jersey experienced an increase in snowstorms. These storms caused significant tree damage, mostly consisting
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Decomposition of fine woody debris in a deciduous forest in North Carolina¹

The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society, 2011
Abstract We examined the effect of position with respect to the soil surface, species, and piece size on the decomposition rate of fine woody debris (< 15 cm diameter) in a North Carolina forest disturbed by hurricane. To examine year-to-year trends, pieces of two species (Carya tomentosa ((Lam.) Nutt.) and Quercus alba (Lam.)) in four size classes ...
Becky G. Fasth, Mark E. Harmon, Jay Sexton, Peter White   +3 more
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Condo or cuisine? The function of fine woody debris in driving decomposition, detritivores, and their predators

Ecology
AbstractCommunity structure and ecosystem function may be driven by the size or the energy within a given habitat, but these metrics (space and energy) are difficult to separate, especially in systems where the habitat itself is also food, such as detritus.
Nicholas V. Benedetto, Craig R. McClain, Natalie A. Clay   +2 more
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Simulated Fine Woody Debris Accumulations in a Stream Increase Rainbow Trout Fry Abundance

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 1996
Abstract Habitat for young-of-the-year rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss was enhanced in a fourth-order stream during August–October 1991 by the addition of wooden structures that simulated accumulations of fine woody debris (FWD). The experiment represented a two-factorial design with the presence or absence of FWD bundles and time since debris ...
Joseph M. Culp, Garry J. Scrimgeour, Greg D. Townsend   +2 more
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Ecology and molecular characterization of dark septate fungi from roots, living stems, coarse and fine woody debris

Mycological Research, 2004
The aim of the present work was to determine the identity and molecular relationships between 127 strains of dark septate (DS) fungi isolated from healthy root tips, decayed coarse roots, live healthy-looking stems, coarse (stumps, snags and logs) and fine (tree branches and tops) woody debris in temperate-boreal forests in Sweden and Lithuania ...
Audrius, Menkis, Johan, Allmer, Rimvydas, Vasiliauskas, Vaidotas, Lygis, Jan, Stenlid, Roger, Finlay   +5 more
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Long-term movement of 15N tracers into fine woody debris under chronically elevated N inputs

Plant and Soil, 2002
Two key questions in the study of large-scale C (carbon) and N (nitrogen) cycling in temperate forests are how N cycling in soil detritus controls ecosystem-level retention of elevated N deposition, and whether elevated N deposition is likely to cause increases in C pools.
William S. Currie, Knute J. Nadelhoffer, Benjamin Colman   +2 more
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The Beetle Community of Small Oak Twigs in Louisiana, with a Literature Review of Coleoptera from Fine Woody Debris

The Coleopterists Bulletin, 2009
Abstract We conducted a study to explore which beetles utilize dead twigs in a Louisiana secondary forest and the effect of debris position on the beetle community. Twigs averaging 14 mm in diameter from one tree of Quercus falcata Michaux (southern red oak) were placed randomly into bundles of ten.
Ferro, Michael L., Gimmel, Matthew L., Harms, Kyle E., Carlton, Christopher E.   +3 more
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