Treesearch
Displaying 1,761 - 1,770 of 65,126 Publications- Changing climate and its interaction with disturbances is reshaping forests of the western United States and southwestern forests are experiencing these changes at an accelerated pace. Southwestern forests are fire prone and a legacy of fire exclusion from past land use and management have homogenized many frequent fire forests, increasing the chance that disturbances reinforce landscape homogeneity. Widespread disturbances, especially those that cause a vegetation type change from forest to non-forest, are and will continue to influence the provision of ecosystem services upon which...AuthorsMatthew D. Hurteau, Reese Baker, Kyle Gonterman, Abigail Granath, Josh Lopez-Binder, M. Dylan Taylor, Lorraina S. Rojas, Lindsey Rotche, Andy Graves, Marissa J. Goodwin, Gavin M. Jones, Christopher MarshKeywordsSourceForest Ecology and Management. 575: 122388.Year2025
- and anthropogenic climate change have led to larger, more severe fires that threaten many animal species where such disturbances do not occur naturally. As predators, owls can play important ecological roles in biological communities, but how changing fire regimes affect individual species and species assemblages is largely unknown. Here, we examined the impact of fire severity, history, and configuration over the past 35 years on an assemblage of six forest owl species in the Sierra Nevada, California, using ecosystem-scale passive acoustic monitoring. While the negative impacts of fire...AuthorsKate McGinn, Benjamin Zuckerberg, Gavin M. Jones, Connor M. Wood, Stefan Kahl, Kevin G. Kelly, Sheila A. Whitmore, H. Anu Kramer, Josh M. Barry, Elizabeth Ng, M. Zachariah PeeryKeywordsSourceEcological Applications. 35: e3080.Year2025
- Accurate, cost-effective monitoring remains a major limitation to conservation efforts for many wildlife species. The USA federally threatened eastern indigo snake (Drymarchon couperi) exemplifies this sampling challenge. They occur at low densities, are cryptic, and highly mobile, which has historically made them challenging and expensive to monitor. However, emerging technologies and methodologies may provide new pathways to augment, complement, or replace conventional sampling to yield improved monitoring programs, both for eastern indigo snakes and for other imperiled and cryptic taxa....AuthorsLeah R. N. Samuels, Taylor Wilcox, Michelle Hoffman, Michele Elmore, Robert Aldredge, Benjamin S. Stegenga, James E. Bogan, Mark A. Davis, Stephanie Hertz, Michael K. Schwartz, Houston C. ChandlerKeywordsSourceJournal for Nature Conservation. 86: 126948.Year2025
- Accurate characterization of wood properties is important for informing urban forestry science, policy and management related to carbon cycling, ecosystem services modeling, and wood utilization. In this study, urban wood samples were collected and analyzed for basic specific gravity (SG) and ash content (AC), two important wood properties that inform biomass estimation and potential for biofuel feedstocks. Samples were collected in Baltimore, Maryland, USA across four urban site types from seven tree species commonly planted in urban settings. Results were compared with published values...AuthorsNancy Falxa Sonti, Jim Westfall, Michael C. Wiemann, Thomas L. EberhardtKeywordsSourceUrban EcosystemsYear2025
- Planted forests account for 7 percent of the global forest area, covering 290 million hectares (ha) of land. About 131 million ha of planted forests are intensively cultivated for productive purposes with fast-growing trees (FGTs). Fast-growing trees have been developed and used for millennia to provide wood and non-wood products to rural communities and other direct and non-direct benefits to urban societies. Globally, FGT plantations comprise a variety of tree species in temperate, subtropical and tropical biomes. These belong to genera such as Populus, Salix, Paulownia, Pinus, Acacia,...AuthorsRonald S. Zalesny Jr., A. Barzagli, B. Caldwell, G. Minotta, G. Nervo, P. Paris, Elizabeth Rogers, F. SalbitanoKeywordsSourceFood and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsYear2025
- Weed management is an integral practice for agriculture-, horticulture-, and forestry-related plant production systems. Weeds create similar problems in improved agroforestry cropping systems as in conventional agriculture and horticulture. While traditional chemical and mechanical weed management techniques are effective for these practices, they require a great deal of labor, are very costly, and can be detrimental to soil health and water quality. An alternative to traditional weed management techniques is the use of ground cover, known as cover crops, to control the spread and suppress...AuthorsBrent S. DeBauche, Chung-Ho Lin, Elizabeth Rogers, Ryan Vinhal, Ronald S. Zalesny Jr.KeywordsSourceInternational Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)Year2025
- The agricultural and forestry sectors of the Caribbean are increasingly vulnerable to the challenges posed by climate change. Less predictable rainfall, more intense extreme climate events, and more days of extreme heat threaten crop and livestock productivity intensify pest and disease pressures, degrade soil health, and lead to significant social and economic challenges (Méndez-Lazaro et al. 2023; Gould et al. 2018). Although climate scenarios can help assess the detrimental implications of climate change in the Caribbean, substantial gaps persist in public knowledge regarding climate...AuthorsNora Alvarez-Berrios, Viviana Medina-Rodríguez, William A. Gould, Gabriela Cotto-Santos, Paloma S. Rodríguez-Serrano, Guillermo Ortiz-ColónSourceBulletin of the American Meteorological SocietyYear2025
- Accurate accounting of greenhouse‐gas (GHG) emissions and removals is central to tracking progress toward climate mitigation and for monitoring potential climate‐change feedbacks. GHG budgeting and reporting can follow either the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change methodologies for National Greenhouse Gas Inventory (NGHGI) reporting or use atmospheric‐based “top‐down” (TD) inversions or process‐based “bottom‐up” (BU) approaches. To help understand and reconcile these approaches, the Second REgional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes study (RECCAP2) was established to quantify GHG...AuthorsBenjamin Poulter, Guillermo Murray‐Tortarolo, Daniel J. Hayes, Philippe Ciais, Robbie M. Andrew, Ana Bastos, Brendan Byrne, David Butman, Josep G. Canadell, Abhishek Chatterjee, Grant M. Domke, Andrew Feldman, Kelsey Foster, Neha Hunka, Robert B. Jackson, Werner A. Kurz, Ayia Lindquist, Maodian Liu, Ingrid Luijkx, Arnaud Mialon, Anna M. Michalak, John Miller, Wolfgang A. Obermeier, Naiqin Pan, James T. Randerson, Peter A. Raymond, Pierre Regnier, Laure Resplandy, Gerard Rocher‐Ros, Nemesio Rodriquez‐Fernandez, Judith Rosentreter, Julio César Salazar‐Neira, Suzanne E. Tank, Hanqin Tian, Rodrigo Vargas, Yohanna Villalobos, Jonathan A. Wang, Xinyuan Wei, Kimberly P. Wickland, Christopher Williams, Lisamarie Windham‐Myers, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Qing Ying, Zhen ZhangKeywordsSourceGlobal Biogeochemical CyclesYear2025
- Most research addressing land use change and forest management effects on soil carbon (C) is conducted at large or localized scales, rather than intermediate scales where management is planned and implemented. We assessed effects of land use and forest management on soil C stocks, for the Central Hardwoods ecoregion of the U.S., using meta-analysis, soil survey and national forest inventory databases to examine baseline controls on soil C stocks and their responses to land use and forest management. Biotic and geologic factors drive baseline variation in soil C stocks across the ecoregion,...AuthorsLucas E. Nave, Kendall DeLyser, Grant M. Domke, Scott M. Holub, John M. Kabrick, Adrienne B. Keller, Patricia Leopold, Matthew Peters, Kevin A. Solarik, Chris SwanstonKeywordsSourceGeoderma RegionalYear2025
- The increasing severity and frequency of droughts will play a pivotal role in shaping future forest ecosystems worldwide. Trees growing in mixtures are thought to be less susceptible to drought stress, but evidence for such positive admixture effects remains limited. This study examines how interspecific neighbourhood structures affect the growth responses of pine and oak species under recurrent drought stress in two contrasting forest ecosystems.We sampled naturally occurring, unmanaged mixed stands of Gambel oak (Quercus gambelii) and ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) in semi-arid...AuthorsG. Schmied, J. Kappen, M. del Rio, W. Keith Moser, M. J. Gundale, T. Hilmers, D. Ambs, E. Uhl, H. PretzschSourcePlant Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.70030.Year2025