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Fire in the suburbs: ecological impacts of prescribed fire in small remnants of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) sandhill
Logging, fire suppression, and urbanization have all contributed to the serious decline and fragmentation of Pinus palustris (longleaf pine) ecosystems in the ...
Effects of pruning in the management of dogwood and pine branch dieback in the landscape
Height, Caliper Growth, and Biomass Response of Ten Shade Tree Species to Treeshelters
Coastal Plain Community Tree Guide: Benefits, Costs, and Strategic Planting
"This report quantifies benefits and costs for representative large, medium, and small broadleaf trees and coniferous trees in the Coastal Plain region: the ...
Response of Pine Trees to Chlorine in the Atmosphere
Reduction of fire hazard through thinning/residue disposal in the urban interface
Alternative fire hazard reduction techniques are needed for managing fuel profiles in forest ecosystems located within the so-called wildland-urban interface. ...
Understory herbicide as a treatment for reducing hazardous fuels and extreme fire behavior in slash pine plantations
The 1998 wildfires in Florida sparked a serious debate about the accumulation of hazardous forest fuels and the merits of prescribed fire and alternatives for ...
Piedmont Community Tree Guide: Benefits, Costs, and Strategic Planting
"This report quantifies benefits and costs for large, medium, and small broadleaf trees and one coniferous tree in the Piedmont region: the species chosen as ...
Effects of fire on temperate forests and related ecosystems: southeastern United States
Studies of effects of fire on the flora and fauna of the southeastern United States have had a long and controversial history. Most of the research effort has ...
Restoration of Southern Ecosystems
Restoration of the myriad communities of bottomland hardwood and wetland forests and of the diverse communities of fire-dominated pine forests is the subject ...
Regional assessment of ozone sensitive tree species using bioindicator plants
Tropospheric ozone occurs at phytotoxic levels in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. Quantifying possible regional-scale impacts ...
An integrated approach to evaluating the economic costs of wildfire hazard reduction through wood utilization opportunities in the southwestern United States
This research provides an important step in the conceptualization and development of an integrated wildfire fuels reduction system from silvicultural ...
Tree moisture stress and insect damage in urban areas in relation to heat island effects
Measuring moisture dynamics to predict fire severity in longleaf pine forests
To understand the combustion limit of biomass fuels in a longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) forest, an experiment was conducted to monitor the moisture content of ...
Particulate pollution capture by urban trees: effect of species and windspeed
Climate change impacts on the hydrology and productivity of a pine plantation
There are increasing concerns in the forestry community about global climate change and variability associated with elevated atmospheric CO2. Changes in ...
Prescribed fire in the interface: separating the people from the trees
Land managers in Florida rely on prescribed fire to prepare sites for regeneration, improve wildlife habitats, reduce vegetative competition, facilitate timber ...
Landscape influences on breeding bird communities in hardwood fragments in South Carolina
Results from studies on the effects of forest fragmentation on bird communities in urban-agricultural landscapes may not be applicable to forested landscapes ...
Nest-site selection by Cooper's hawks in an urban environment
Loss of nesting habitat due to urbanization and development has been identified as a primary threat to Cooper's hawks (Accipiter cooperii), but this species ...
Effect of stand width and adjacent habitat on breeding bird communities in bottomland hardwoods
Bottomland hardwood forests support an abundant and diverse avifauna, but area of this forest type has been reduced, and current projections indicate continued ...
Fire regimes and biodiversity: The effects of fragmentation of southeastern Australian eucalypt forests by urbanization, agriculture and pine plantations
Fragmentation of eucalypt forests has been common in southeastern Australia. Urbanization, agriculture and the establishment of plantations of the exotic tree ...
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