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Plant Community Stability over 40 Years in a Fraser River Estuary Tidal Freshwater Marsh
Long-term data sets documenting temporal changes in vegetation communities are uncommon, yet imperative for understanding trends and triggering...
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Biophysical Controls on Soil Carbon Cycling in a Northern Hardwood Forest
Soil organic matter (SOM) is a major global carbon (C) pool vulnerable to ongoing warming, as microbial SOM decomposition and CO 2 respiration are...
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Forest Insect—Plant Interactions
Insects and plants dominate terrestrial ecosystems in terms of both species numbers and biomass. Ecological relationships between insects and plants...
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Fine-scale spatial heterogeneity shapes compensatory responses of a subalpine forest to severe bark beetle outbreak
ContextGrowth releases of individuals that survive disturbances are important compensatory response mechanisms that contribute to ecological...
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IPM: The Forest Context
Integrated pest management (IPM) is perhaps best described as “…the maintenance of destructive agents, including insects, at tolerable levels by the...
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Challenges for the Sustainable Management of the Boreal Forest Under Climate Change
The increasing effects of climate and global change oblige ecosystem-based management to adapt forestry practices to deal with uncertainties. Here we...
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Long-term effects of succession, climate change and insect disturbance on oak-pine forest composition in the U.S. Central Hardwood Region
Oak-pine forests in the U.S. Central Hardwood Forests are recovering from exploitative harvesting and clearing in the early twentieth century and are...
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Tracing carbon flow through a sugar maple forest and its soil components: role of invasive earthworms
AimsWe conducted a suite of tracer studies using the stable isotope 13 C to follow and quantify the flow of carbon from leaf litter and roots into...
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Plant and soil nitrogen in oligotrophic boreal forest habitats with varying moss depths: does exclusion of large grazers matter?
The boreal forest consists of drier sunlit and moister-shaded habitats with varying moss abundance. Mosses control vascular plant–soil interactions,...
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l-Physostigmine (Eserine)
In his report (Christison 1855) to the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 5th February 1855 of his pioneering studies upon the toxicology of the Calabar...
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Methane and Carbon Dioxide Flux Heterogeneity Mediated by Termite Mounds in Moist Tropical Forest Soils of Himalayan Foothills, India
Termites are dominant soil macro-fauna in tropical forests, yet remain an uncertain component of the carbon budget in many regions. We investigated CH
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Effective population size of adult and offspring cohorts as a genetic monitoring tool in two stand-forming and wind-pollinated tree species: Fagus sylvatica L. and Picea abies (L.) Karst.
Genetic diversity is considered to be a prerequisite for adaptation and adaptability as it is a key element of biological diversity. However, the...
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Changes in leaf stomatal traits of different aged temperate forest stands
Stomata control carbon and water vapor exchange between the leaves and the atmosphere, thus influencing photosynthesis and transpiration....
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Windthrow resistance of trees: geotechnical engineering approach
Failure of trees in high winds is of interest to a broad array of stakeholders: foresters, meteorologists, homeowners, insurance industry, parks and...
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Fuel Profiles and Biomass Carbon Following Bark Beetle Outbreaks: Insights for Disturbance Interactions from a Historical Silvicultural Experiment
Anticipating consequences of disturbance interactions on ecosystem structure and function is a critical management priority as disturbance activity...
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On the limited consensus of mountain pine beetle impacts on wildfire
ContextThe mountain pine beetle (MPB; Dendroctonus ponderosae ) is a native bark beetle whose outbreaks leads to widespread conifer forest mortality....
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The effect of root shaving and biostimulant application on the transplant success of six common Australian urban tree species
To enhance the establishment of container-grown trees, nursery and urban forest practitioners use root pruning to improve plant root structure....
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Do common dispersal influences inform a large lizard’s landscape-scale gene flow?
The dispersal tendencies of individuals can provide an important adaptive basis to counter environmental and ecological variation to increase fitness...
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Biomass allocation and nutrient use efficiency in response to water stress: insight from experimental manipulation of balsam fir, concolor fir and white pine transplants
Plants under water stress alter their normal morphological and physiological processes. However, biomass allocation and nutrient use efficiency...
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Maximizing Eucalyptus pilularis progeny selection using a parentage matrix obtained with microsatellite markers
Eucalyptus pilularis Smith is renowned for its high-quality wood, rapid growth, and adaptability to diverse soil conditions. This study aimed to...
