Book Reviews: Eastern Deciduous Forest: Ecology and Wildlife Conservation, by R.H. Yahnerdoi:Society of American ForestersLaurie WunderRobert O. CurtisForest Science
In recent years, the potential value of forests as a “natural climate solution” has received a great deal of attention. Forests remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store carbon as organic matter in wood and soil. They also provide an important renewable resource that can replace the...
G. Hunting of Wildlife in Tropical Forests: Implications for Biodiversity and Forest Peoples Biodiversity Studies Impact Series Paper No. 76 (World Bank, Washington DC, 2000). Levis, C. et al. Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition. Science 355, ...
Tongass National Forest, forest region and wilderness area in southeastern Alaska, U.S. It was established in 1907 by an executive order issued by Pres. Theodore Roosevelt (formal legislation declaring it a national forest was signed into law in 1909). T
We did not cut new transects to avoid potential negative effects on wildlife by increasing access to hunters [48]. We put a flag every 25 m along the transects that encompassed both interior and edge of the forest. We flagged a total of 309 locations at a mean distance from the forest...
Once a large wildfire has been defined, the challenge is to quantify the effects of the fire on the disruption of forest ecosystem functions. The assignment of “value to ecology” is a cross-disciplinary and controversial concept, being differently interpreted by ecologists, natural scientists, and...
orbiotype. There is also no agreement on the boundaries of assemblages—say, where theforestbiome ends and the prairie biome begins. Nonetheless, especially when these approaches are applied globally, as with theecoregionsused by theWorld Wide Fund for Nature(World Wildlife Fund, WWF), they provid...
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they resurveyed 62 sites across northern Wisconsin and Michigan in 2000-01 that were first studied by former UW-Madison Professor John Curtis and his students in the 1950s. "This showed us just how the forest has changed during a time when deer were becoming much more common, but it did ...
Nevertheless, most existing forest ecosystems are continuously disturbed by natural and human-made events, such as fires, pests, and deforestation, which seriously harms the local ecosystem and wildlife population structure [4,5]. It is urgently needed to develop appropriate land management strategies ...