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Seed mix design and application to overcome seed limitation in floodplain forest restorations
Floodplain forests are crucial ecosystems that play significant roles in biodiversity conservation, water filtration, and flood mitigation, making their preservation and restoration a priority. The restoration of these ecosystems is essential not only for the recovery of their ecological integrity …
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Adaptive Silviculture in an urban floodplain forest: exploring functional traits and soil responses for climate ready forests
Floodplain forests within the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area (MNRRA) are experiencing numerous ecological challenges related to altered hydrology, land use changes, introduced species, and climate change. One of the most pressing concerns is the loss of the predominant canopy …
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Sapling growth and recruitment as affected by flooding and canopy gap formation in a river floodplain forest in southeast Texas
I used sapling population data collected since 1980 to investigate how canopy disturbance interacts with chronic understory disturbance to determine regeneration patterns. I reconstructed flooding history using a combination of river gauging, a local water-level recorder, and contour maps. 1979 was …
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A Probabilistic Model of A Floodplain Forest: Prediction of Changes in Species Distribution Due to Variable Backwater Conditions During Reservoir Operation
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PATTERNS OF SEEDFALL AND SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT IN AN EAST TEXAS RIVER FLOODPLAIN FOREST: THE CONTRIBUTION OF SEEDLING DYNAMICS TO SPECIES COEXISTENCE (PLANT DEMOGRAPHY, DISPERSAL, TREE REGENERATION, SURVIVORSHIP, MORTALITY)
… survivorship, and growth in an East Texas river floodplain forest from 1980 through 1984, and estimated the importance of several factors including flooding, drought, shading, insect herbivory, and fungal attack in causing seedling mortality. Tree species fell into two groups on the basis of …
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White-tailed deer hunting and habitat use in Robert Allerton Park
… RAP’s three main habitat types, dry mesic upland forest, wet mesic floodplain forest and developed land using a generalized linear mixed model. Annual counts were categorized into two periods: no deer removal (1988-2004) and deer removal (2005-2015). Second, I used Moran’s I spatial …
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Lowland savanna of southeastern Iowa: historical and modern vegetation patterns and implications for management
… were compared to those of upland savanna and floodplain forest in the Lower Cedar River Valley of southeast Iowa, U.S.A. Furthermore, the effects of fire and abiotic variables on the flora of a degraded lowland savanna remnant were evaluated to assess restoration efforts. The General Land …
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Habitat use and demography of red-headed woodpeckers in west-central Illinois
… be greater for higher cavities, nests located in floodplain forest, and at nest sites surrounded by relatively little shrub cover. My results suggest that red-headed woodpeckers use a variety of available habitats on the modern Midwestern landscape, and will nest in areas with an open understory …
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Factors affecting root system response to nutrient heterogeneity in forested wetland ecosystems
… system response to nutrient heterogeneity in forested wetland ecosystems of southeastern United States. Fine root biomass was not correlated with soil nutrient availability within wetland ecosystems, but was related to ecosystem-scale fertility. Root systems generally did not respond to P-rich …
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Ecological-Hydrological Feedback in Forested Wetlands
In forested wetlands, the biotic and abiotic consequences of water level variability is not well understood. The effects of flooding on carbon and water exchanges are important knowledge gaps where progress could benefit management of natural resources and predicting of changes in surface …
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Fruit to Sapling: an Ontogenetically Integrated Study of Tree Recruitment in an Amazonian Rainforest
… of multiple tree species in a western Amazonian floodplain forest at three ontogenetic stages: seed fall, seedling establishment, and sapling recruitment.</p><p>From analyzing a long-term seed rain dataset collected using a high-density array of seed traps, I confirmed that seed fall decreases …
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An examination of temporal trends, regional variation, and habitat-type differences in site-level Floristic Quality, and their implications for the use of Floristic Quality Assessment
… across regions and habitat-types. I found that forests had higher Floristic Quality values on average than wetlands. However, a separate analysis of a select group of the state’s most pristine habitats showed that the upper-range of forest Floristic Quality was equal to, or lower than, that of …
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Herbaceous and woody plant establishment across hydrologic gradients in bottomland reforestation sites
… as planted tree survival and growth, in restored floodplain forests. Thus, community assembly in a restored floodplain and, ultimately, restoration outcomes are likely constrained by the site’s hydrologic regime, along with other abiotic factors including light availability and the distance from …
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Earth Observatory-based Assessment of Spatial and Temporal trends in Inundation Extent in the Barotse Wetland,Western Zambia
… was observed. From 1984 to 2015 the change in forest cover was observed at 9.78 percent with an annual rate of decrease of 0.32 percent. Overall, the Mann-Kendall trend test showed significant declining trends in mean annual discharge for the period from 1952 to 2003 at Senanga and 1952 to 2004 …
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Earth Observatory-based Assessment of Spatial and Temporal trends in Inundation Extent in the Barotse Wetland,Western Zambia
… was observed. From 1984 to 2015 the change in forest cover was observed at 9.78 percent with an annual rate of decrease of 0.32 percent. Overall, the Mann-Kendall trend test showed significant declining trends in mean annual discharge for the period from 1952 to 2003 at Senanga and 1952 to 2004 …
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Taxonomic homogenization of plant communities in Illinois wetlands and the role of wetland compensation
… wetlands (48 herbaceous emergent wetlands and 11 floodplain forests). This study focused on both within-site and regional scales, and assessed whether taxonomic homogenization has occurred in these wetlands. In the second study, I used 38 compensation wetlands (26 herbaceous emergent and 12 …
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Konzept zur Ermittlung langfristiger hydrologischer Standortbedingungen von Fluss und Grundwasser in Auenwäldern
Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die ausführliche Analyse und Beschreibung langfristiger abiotischer Standortbedingungen von Fluss und Grundwasser für das in einem Hartholzauenwald gelegene Untersuchungsgebiet im Naturschutzgebiet Saalberghau an der Mittleren Elbe bei Dessau. Hierzu erfolgt …