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Avian Ecology During Oak Savanna And Woodland Restoration In The Mid-South, Christine Ann Henderson
Avian Ecology During Oak Savanna And Woodland Restoration In The Mid-South, Christine Ann Henderson
Masters Theses
Disturbance-dependent ecosystems in the eastern United States have been declining since European settlement, and, in recent years, early-successional species have followed. My objective for this research was to determine if oak savanna and woodland restoration (i.e., overstory thinning and prescribed fire) was a viable method of recovering declining earlysuccessional species to the landscape of the Mid-South. At 3 sites, Catoosa Wildlife Management Area (CWMA; Tennessee), Green River Game Lands (GRGL; North Carolina), and Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area (LBL; Tennessee), oak savanna and woodland restoration projects were established and maintained. Closed-canopy stands were thinned and a 2-year burn …
Stand Dynamics And Fire History Of A Southern Appalachian Pine-Hardwood Forest On Rainy Mountain, Chattahoochee National Forest, Georgia, U.S.A., Alex William Dye
Stand Dynamics And Fire History Of A Southern Appalachian Pine-Hardwood Forest On Rainy Mountain, Chattahoochee National Forest, Georgia, U.S.A., Alex William Dye
Masters Theses
In the American Southeast, forest managers and conservationists are interested in evaluating how forest composition is changing in response to both human and natural disturbances. This study explored the stand dynamics of a pine-hardwood forest on Rainy Mountain in the Chattahoochee National Forest of Georgia over the last 115 years and analyzed the role fire has had as a disturbance in the forest. Increment cores were collected from trees in 30 plots, each 0.01 ha in area. The cores were used to determine date of establishment of each tree and create age structure charts for each plot and for the …
Oak Savanna Restoration And Management In The Mid-South, Seth A. Barrioz
Oak Savanna Restoration And Management In The Mid-South, Seth A. Barrioz
Masters Theses
Oak savannas are among the most imperiled ecosystems in the United States as a result of habitat degradation and consequently, associated vegetation and wildlife communities have also declined. I evaluated savanna restoration strategies on twelve case studies in Tennessee and Kentucky. These case studies represented a broad range of disturbances and the most advanced savanna restoration sites within the region. I evaluated vegetation and breeding bird responses to landscape and overstory conditions across sites through a meta-analysis. Total grass and forb cover were influenced by overstory metrics but not by topography (P >0.05). Oak regeneration density was influenced by canopy …