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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"oak woodlands"”.
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Effects of Urbanization on the Avian Community of Oak Woodlands
… point-count surveys of breeding birds in 28 oak woodland patches were performed to measure the effect of urbanization on the local bird community. Contrary to similar studies, no significant effect of urban development was found on either density or overall species richness of breeding birds. …
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Effects of climate and land management changes on conservation of Mediterranean Cork oak woodlands and their bird communities
Cork oak woodlands are a keystone habitat for Mediterranean biodiversity but are currently undergoing a global decline and widespread management changes driven by social, economic and climatic factors. I examine the effects of both climate and land management changes on cork oak woodlands and their …
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Relationship of Tecate Cypress Distribution to Soil Types
… Douglas fir, mixed conifer, knob cone pine and oak woodlands.</p> <p>Thus it appears that the Tecate Cypress may be limited to acidic soils that are nutrient poor and thereby lacking the competition found on typical chaparral soils. This may be a factor in their limited distribution in the Santa …
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The influence of current year fire on leaf litter decomposition rates and microbial enzyme activity in forests undergoing ecological restoration
As a result of fire suppression, open oak woodlands, once characteristic of the interior of the southern USA, are being lost to mesophication. This process leads to changes in the plant community and has the potential to change rates of decomposition and nutrient cycling through changes in …
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Impact of Prescribed Fire on the Terrestrial Orchid, <i>Isotria medeoloides</i> in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains
… an objective of restoring historical open-canopy oak-hickory woodlands. Open oak woodlands were typical of the historical fire regime in the Shenandoah Valley (Lafon et al., 2017). As a threatened species, small whorled pogonia is protected under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. This requires …
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Modelling mitigation of bird population declines in the UK through landscape-scale environmental management.
… (Hampshire) and arable farmland with scattered woodlands in Cambridgeshire. Recently acquired, high resolution airborne remote sensing datasets (Light Detection and Ranging, LiDAR) were used to develop metrics that quantified vegetation structure within the two study landscapes. These variables, …