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 …

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 …

The third edition of The Ecology and Silviculture of Oaks is an updated and expanded
edition that explores oak forests as responsive ecosystems. New chapters emphasize the …

Many forests of eastern North American are undergoing a species composition shift in which
maples (Acer spp.) are increasingly important while oak (Quercus spp.) regeneration and …

Interannual climate variations have been important drivers of wildfire occurrence in
ponderosa pine forests across western North America for at least 400 years, but at finer …

This study quantifies prescribed fire effects at four sites in southern Ohio, from 1995 to 2002.
Each site had three treatment units: an unburned control, a unit burned 2×(1996 and 1999) …

In humid, broadleaf‐dominated forests where gap dynamics and partial canopy mortality
appears to dominate the disturbance regime at local scales, paleoecological evidence …

Bee species diversity and the effectiveness of four sampling methods were investigated in a
west-central Illinois restored tallgrass prairie. Bees were sampled using malaise traps …

Guidelines for using prescribed fire to regenerate and restore upland oak forests,
woodlands, and savannas in eastern North America were developed by synthesizing the …

Fire‐maintained ecosystems and associated species are becoming increasingly rare in the
southern Appalachian Mountains because of fire suppression policies implemented in the …