Prescribed fire in North American forests and woodlands: history, current practice, and challenges

KC Ryan, EE Knapp, JM Varner - Frontiers in Ecology and the …, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
Whether ignited by lightning or by Native Americans, fire once shaped many North American
ecosystems. Euro–American settlement and 20th‐century fire suppression practices …

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 …

Mesophication of oak landscapes: Evidence, knowledge gaps, and future research

HD Alexander, C Siegert, JS Brewer, J Kreye… - …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Pyrophytic oak landscapes across the central and eastern United States are losing
dominance as shade-tolerant, fire-sensitive, or opportunistic tree species encroach into …

Direct and indirect effects of alien insect herbivores on ecological processes and interactions in forests of eastern North America

KJK Gandhi, DA Herms - Biological Invasions, 2010‏ - Springer
Alien invasive insects such as gypsy moth, hemlock woolly adelgid, and emerald ash borer
continue to disturb the mixed deciduous and hemlock forests of eastern North America by …

Open forest ecosystems: An excluded state

BB Hanberry, DC Bragg, HD Alexander - Forest Ecology and Management, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Once dominant but now largely excluded from eastern North America, open forests of
savannas to woodlands occupy the ecosystem gradient between grasslands and closed …

Ecology and management of white‐tailed deer in a changing world

WJ McShea - Annals of the New york Academy of Sciences, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
Due to chronic high densities and preferential browsing, white‐tailed deer have significant
impacts on woody and herbaceous plants. These impacts have ramifications for animals that …

Reconstructing a herbivore's diet using a novel rbcL DNA mini-barcode for plants

DL Erickson, E Reed, P Ramachandran, NA Bourg… - AoB Plants, 2017‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract Next Generation Sequencing and the application of metagenomic analyses can be
used to answer questions about animal diet choice and study the consequences of selective …

Mammalian resistance to megafire in western US woodland savannas

KL Calhoun, BR Goldstein, KM Gaynor, A McInturff… - …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Increasingly frequent megafires are dramatically altering landscapes and critical habitats
around the world. Across the western United States, megafires have become an almost …

Climate change, a booster of disease outbreaks by the plant pathogen Phytophthora in oak forests

HA Contreras-Cornejo, J Larsen, SP Fernández-Pavía… - Rhizosphere, 2023‏ - Elsevier
In forests, trees such as oaks (Quercus spp.) fulfill key ecological functions, including nutrient
and water cycling. In the last decades, climate change and its related environmental …

Impacts of cattle on amphibian larvae and the aquatic environment

AC Schmutzer, MJ Gray, EC Burton… - Freshwater …, 2008‏ - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 Agricultural practices such as cattle farming may have direct or indirect negative
effects on larval amphibians by decreasing water quality through deposition of nitrogenous …