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Resilience and plant growth forms 40 years after a volcanic disturbance

Ecosphere, Volume 17, Issue 6, June 2026.
Abstract Resilience represents a critical concept in ecology; yet, quantitative assessment of resilience in response to disturbance is rare, even for widely recognized growth forms. Plant groups based on deciduousness, clonality, morphology, and Raunkiaer life form could predict inertia to major disturbances and subsequent resilience.
Dylan G. Fischer, Joseph Antos, Donald Zobel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using LiDAR to quantify, map, and conserve late‐successional and old‐growth forest in Maine, USA

Ecosphere, Volume 17, Issue 6, June 2026.
Abstract The world continues to lose late‐successional and old‐growth (LSOG) forest as the human population and demand for wood fiber grow. However, older forest age classes provide structural and compositional characteristics important to biodiversity that are often not present in forests managed for timber.
John M. Hagan, Benjamin Shamgochian, Molly M. L. Taylor, J. Michael Reed   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characterization of Wildland Fuels Based on Topography and Forest Attributes in North-Central Appalachia

Fire
Forest ecosystem attributes and their spatial variation across the landscape have the potential to subsequently influence variations in fire behavior. Understanding this variation is critical to fire managers in their ability to predict fire behavior and
Ziyu Dong, Roger A. Williams
doaj   +1 more source

Initial Recovery of the Herbaceous Layer of a Temperate Deciduous Forest After 30 Years of Nitrogen Amendments: Implications for the Success of the Clean Air Act

Global Change Biology Communications, Volume 1, Issue 2, June 2026.
A hysteretic model predicts a time lag in the response of herbaceous layer variables (e.g., cover, diversity) to decreasing N deposition. To the contrary, virtually all such variables displayed a surprising sensitivity to decreased N. ABSTRACT Increases in nitrogen (N) emissions during the 20th century resulted in the atmospheric deposition of N ...
Frank S. Gilliam, Zachariah K. Fowler, William T. Peterjohn   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Foliar nutrient resorption and litterfall production with stand age, overstory composition, and disturbance origin in boreal forests

, 2015
Nutrient resorption (NuR) prior to developmental senescence allows for nutrient conservation in plants, driven primarily by genetics, development stage, climate and soil fertility, and litterfall is the vector for the influx of nutrients to the soil ...
Brant, Amber Nadine
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Variation in Climate Shapes Seedling Recruitment Along Resource Gradients in a Northern Hardwood Forest

Global Change Biology Communications, Volume 1, Issue 2, June 2026.
Seedling counts over 26 years revealed that wetter‐site temperate tree species struggle to recruit in warmer, drier years, whereas drier‐site species are more climate‐tolerant. Shadier forests buffered seedlings from heat and drought. Local soils and canopy cover strongly shaped outcomes, revealing considerable differences among species in climate ...
Bailey H. McNichol, Richard K. Kobe
wiley   +1 more source

Fire Exclusion Destroys Habitats for At-Risk Species in a British Columbia Protected Area

Fire, 2019
Fire exclusion and suppression has altered the composition and structure of Garry oak and associated ecosystems in British Columbia. The absence of frequent low severity ground fires has been one of the main contributors to dense patches of non-native ...
Kira M. Hoffman, Sara B. Wickham, William S. McInnes, Brian M. Starzomski   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spatial behavior of socially isolated wild pigs (Sus scrofa) following sounder removal via trapping

Pest Management Science, Volume 82, Issue 6, Page 5225-5236, June 2026.
Following partial sounder removal, socially isolated wild pigs maintained site fidelity near traps, highlighting post‐control behavioral tendencies that are relevant to pest management and disease mitigation. Abstract BACKGROUND The rapid expansion of wild pig (Sus scrofa) populations across North America, coupled with increased concern over disease ...
Sebastian Gomez‐Maldonado, Matthew T McDonough, Jonathon J Valente, Mark D Smith, Stephen S. Ditchkoff   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Facilitation of Subalpine Fir and Aspen Regeneration by Overstory Aspen

, 2009
Forest inventory and analysis data show a 60% decline of aspen in the Interior West relative to historic highs. Succession to conifer is hypothesized to be the major contributor to aspen loss.
St. Clair, S. B., Calder, W.
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Salient features and ecosystem services of tree species in mountainous indigenous agroforestry systems of North-Eastern Tanzania

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Indigenous agroforestry systems in tropical mountainous environments provide crucial ecosystem services, but these ecosystems are also facing some challenges.
Oforo Didas Kimaro, Oforo Didas Kimaro, Oforo Didas Kimaro, Ellen Desie, Didas Nahum Kimaro, Karen Vancampenhout, Karl-Heinz Feger   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source