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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"longleaf pine savanna"”.
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Effects of fire and treefalls on Japanese climbing fern and native species groundcover in a restored longleaf pine savanna
… play an important role in maintaining longleaf pine savannas. Windstorms and fires contribute to the heterogeneity of pine savanna understory through generation of canopy gaps and fuel accumulation, distribution and consumption. The combination of windstorms and fires promotes native …
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The Effects on Soil Fungal Community of Excluding select Above-ground Herbaceous Species in a Montane Longleaf Pine Savanna Restoration Area
<p>Due to anthropogenic pressures, by the 1990s longleaf pine forests were at 3% its peak area. Restoration is difficult as vegetation communities constitute a mosaic across the longleaf range. Hence, vegetation description is important wherever longleaf pine communities exist. Vegetation strongly …
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Assessing The Impacts Of Grazing By Piney Woods Cattle And Controlled Burning On The Herbaceous Layer In An East Gulf Coastal Plain Longleaf Pine Woodland
… ecosystems. In the southeastern United States, longleaf pine plant communities are adapted to frequent fires and are likely to have been grazed by bison in the past. Though bison have been extirpated from this region, Pineywoods Cattle, which were introduced by the Spanish in the 16<sup>th</sup> …
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Delineating Metrics of Diversity for a Snake Community in a Rare Ecosystem
… occurring in a ~7,000–ha tract of contiguous Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris) Savanna within the Angelina National Forest (ANF; Angelina and Jasper Cos., TX), over the course of two consecutive snake activity seasons. I quantified the snake species richness, Shannon diversity, and Shannon …
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Ecological assembly of high-diversity plant communities: dispersal, competition, and environmental filtering in longleaf pine savannas
… Using field experiments in a high-diversity longleaf pine savanna, I test the general hypothesis that “ecological filters” (competition, disturbance, and resource availability) contribute to niche assembly through their effects on established plant species and recruitment from the species …
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Influence of fire and habitat on the removal of invasive plant seeds by granivores in longleaf pine savannas
… Triadica sebifera, and Melia azedarach), in longleaf pine savanna that varied spatially in time since fire, in the Sandhills of North Carolina. I selected eight sites burnt one growing season prior, and nine sites burnt three growing seasons prior, within which I established paired plots in …
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Habitat use by wintering passerines in fire-managed forests along the U.S. Gulf Coast
… habitats include fire-managed areas such as longleaf pine savanna, oak scrub, and sand pine scrub. During the winters of 2013 and 2014, the bird community was surveyed with repeated fixed-area searches paired with vegetation surveys. Kinglets were banded and regularly re-sighted to record …
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Global change effects on ant-mediated seed dispersal
… habitat patches with corridors in restored longleaf pine savanna systems in South Carolina. We used a landscape scale experiment to investigate how reducing isolation affects the assembly of ant communities over time (Chapter 2) and seed dispersal of the myrmecochorous forb, Piriqueta …
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Effects of Fire on Soil CO₂ Efflux in a Mature Longleaf Pine Forest
… was conducted from 2012-2013 in a 96 year old longleaf pine at the Lake Thoreau Environmental Center located Lamar County, MS. Measurements of soil CO₂ efflux (i.e., soil respiration or SR) rates (µmol m<sup>-2 </sup>sec<sup>-1</sup>) were taken across 8 field plots (4 burned, 4 unburned) …