This was the logwood tree (Haematoxylum campechianum) Despite its name, this is a shrubby tree, with a twisted trunk, which grows along stream banks, in swamps and along the shores of lakes and ponds in southern Mexico and northern Central America. The sap of the logwood tree was used...
Full size image Question 3: What weather, forest structure, and fuel contagion conditions were generally associated with large fire years, and how did surface and canopy fuel contagion, fire weather, and topography interact to drive observed variability of fire size and severity? Superposed epoch an...
Increased inundation of lower elevation swamp white oak (Quercus bicolor) and silver maple (Acer sacchari- num) stands may result in the transformation to willow (Salix spp.), cottonwood (Populus spp.), herbaceous, or shrub cover, or, more likely, a transformation of forest to wet meadow or...
One of the larger of these islands, Harön, is covered by a spruce-dominated stand with some lime, oak, alder, ash, elm and maple in the tree layer and abundant hazel in the shrub layer. Many trees are more than 200 years old, and no cut stumps were found in the study plot. In...