Sustaining oak forests in eastern North America: regeneration and recruitment, the pillars of sustainability

DC Dey - Forest Science, 2014‏ - academic.oup.com
Oak cover types comprise half of the forestlands in the eastern United States. There is a
great desire to sustain these highly valued forests. Unfortunately, reports of the successional …

Silviculture to restore oak savannas and woodlands

DC Dey, JM Kabrick, CJ Schweitzer - Journal of Forestry, 2017‏ - academic.oup.com
Variability in historic fire regimes in eastern North America resulted in an array of oak natural
communities that were dominant across the region. In the past century, savannas and …

A meta-analysis of the fire-oak hypothesis: does prescribed burning promote oak reproduction in eastern North America?

PH Brose, DC Dey, RJ Phillips, TA Waldrop - Forest Science, 2013‏ - academic.oup.com
The fire-oak hypothesis asserts that the current lack of fire is a reason behind the
widespread oak (Quercus spp.) regeneration difficulties of eastern North America, and use …

Refining the oak‐fire hypothesis for management of oak-dominated forests of the eastern United States

MA Arthur, HD Alexander, DC Dey… - Journal of …, 2012‏ - academic.oup.com
Prescribed fires are increasingly implemented throughout eastern deciduous forests to
accomplish various management objectives, including maintenance of oak-dominated …

Overabundant deer and invasive plants drive widespread regeneration debt in eastern United States national parks

KM Miller, SJ Perles, JP Schmit… - Ecological …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Advanced regeneration, in the form of tree seedlings and saplings, is critical for ensuring the
long‐term viability and resilience of forest ecosystems in the eastern United States. Lack of …

Sustaining eastern oak forests: Synergistic effects of fire and topography on vegetation and fuels

TF Hutchinson, BT Adams, MB Dickinson… - Ecological …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Across much of the eastern United States, oak forests are undergoing mesophication as
shade‐tolerant competitors become more abundant and suppress oak regeneration. Given …

Interactions between white-tailed deer density and the composition of forest understories in the northern United States

MB Russell, CW Woodall, KM Potter, BF Walters… - Forest Ecology and …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Forest understories across the northern United States (US) are a complex of tree seedlings,
endemic forbs, herbs, shrubs, and introduced plant species within a forest structure defined …

The fire-oak literature of eastern North America: synthesis and guidelines

PD Brose, DC Dey, TA Waldrop - 2014‏ - digitalcommons.unl.edu
Guidelines for using prescribed fire to regenerate and restore upland oak forests,
woodlands, and savannas in eastern North America were developed by synthesizing the …

Long-term (13-year) effects of repeated prescribed fires on stand structure and tree regeneration in mixed-oak forests

TF Hutchinson, DA Yaussy, RP Long, J Rebbeck… - Forest ecology and …, 2012‏ - Elsevier
The survival and growth of oak advance regeneration is often limited by shade-tolerant
species that are abundant in the understory of oak stands. Evidence of historic burning has …

Map** forest composition with landsat time series: An evaluation of seasonal composites and harmonic regression

B Adams, L Iverson, S Matthews, M Peters, A Prasad… - Remote Sensing, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
The Landsat program has long supported pioneering research on the recovery of forest
information by remote sensing technologies for several decades, and efforts to improve the …