Predicting future ecosystem dynamics depends critically on an improved understanding of
how disturbances and climate change have driven long-term ecological changes in the past …

American chestnut (Castanea dentata) once held great economic and ecological importance
in eastern US forests before its demise due to an invasive blight fungus. Backcross breeding …

Abstract Question How has European settlement of Eastern North America modified tree
species assemblages? Location The northern temperate forests of the Lower St. Lawrence …

Les caractéristiques des forêts préindustrielles permettent d'établir des états de référence
pour l'aménagement durable des forêts. Cette approche historique est particulièrement …

Historic land survey records (LSRs) offer important details on local-and landscape-scale
vegetation patterns related to Native American land-use practices prior to widespread Euro …

Shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata) and oak (Quercus spp.) woodlands in Arkansas are in
decline due to the removal of frequent, low intensity wildfire disturbances that maintained …

Restoration and management of ecologically important sites depend on an understanding of
reference conditions and the ability of people to return the site to those historic conditions …