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View article: Tree‐Ring and Sediment Analyses Reveal Processes of Bald Cypress Ghost Forest Formation From Dredging in the Cape Fear River, North Carolina, <scp>USA</scp>
Tree‐Ring and Sediment Analyses Reveal Processes of Bald Cypress Ghost Forest Formation From Dredging in the Cape Fear River, North Carolina, <span>USA</span> Open
Forested, freshwater tidal wetlands in the southeastern US are dominated by bald cypresses ( Taxodium distichum ), which tolerate low levels of salinity. However, the response of old‐growth bald cypress trees to prolonged increases in sali…
View article: Mechanical soil disturbance in a pine savanna has multiyear effects on plant species composition
Mechanical soil disturbance in a pine savanna has multiyear effects on plant species composition Open
Soil disturbance threatens native perennial grasslands and savannas worldwide, including pine savannas of the North American Coastal Plain. Disk harrows are used in the region to plow linear features for firebreaks to contain prescribed fi…
View article: Data from: Mechanical soil disturbance in a pine savanna has multi-year effects on plant species composition
Data from: Mechanical soil disturbance in a pine savanna has multi-year effects on plant species composition Open
Data used in the manuscript Mechanical soil disturbance in a pine savanna has multi-year effects on plant species composition accepted for publication in Ecosphere. Data included are species lists for all plots and years, percent cover of …
View article: Data from: Mechanical soil disturbance in a pine savanna has multi-year effects on plant species composition
Data from: Mechanical soil disturbance in a pine savanna has multi-year effects on plant species composition Open
Data used in the manuscript Mechanical soil disturbance in a pine savanna has multi-year effects on plant species composition accepted for publication in Ecosphere. Data included are species lists for all plots and years, percent cover of …
View article: Hardwoods influence effect of climate and intraspecific competition on growth of woodland longleaf pine trees
Hardwoods influence effect of climate and intraspecific competition on growth of woodland longleaf pine trees Open
Longleaf pine woodlands of the North American Coastal Plain are proposed to be resilient to climate change impacts, but little is known about changes in limiting factors to longleaf pine growth as climate has changed in late 20th century a…
View article: Reduced fire severity offers near-term buffer to climate-driven declines in conifer resilience across the western United States
Reduced fire severity offers near-term buffer to climate-driven declines in conifer resilience across the western United States Open
Increasing fire severity and warmer, drier postfire conditions are making forests in the western United States (West) vulnerable to ecological transformation. Yet, the relative importance of and interactions between these drivers of forest…
View article: The Longleaf Tree-Ring Network: Reviewing and expanding the utility of <i>Pinus palustris</i> Mill. Dendrochronological data
The Longleaf Tree-Ring Network: Reviewing and expanding the utility of <i>Pinus palustris</i> Mill. Dendrochronological data Open
The longleaf pine ( Pinus palustris Mill.) and related ecosystem is an icon of the southeastern United States (US). Once covering an estimated 37 million ha from Texas to Florida to Virginia, the near-extirpation of, and subsequent restora…
View article: Detecting Woody Plants in Southern Arizona Using Data from the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
Detecting Woody Plants in Southern Arizona Using Data from the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Open
Land cover changes and conversions are occurring rapidly in response to human activities throughout the world. Woody plant encroachment (WPE) is a type of land cover conversion that involves the proliferation and/or densification of woody …
View article: A tree-ring record of historical fire activity in a piedmont longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) woodland in North Carolina, USA
A tree-ring record of historical fire activity in a piedmont longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) woodland in North Carolina, USA Open
Background Longleaf pine ( Pinus palustris Mill.) ecosystems were historically widespread in the North American Coastal Plain and in some southeastern piedmont and montane settings. The naval stores industry, deforestation, and other human…
View article: The North American tree‐ring fire‐scar network
The North American tree‐ring fire‐scar network Open
Fire regimes in North American forests are diverse and modern fire records are often too short to capture important patterns, trends, feedbacks, and drivers of variability. Tree‐ring fire scars provide valuable perspectives on fire regimes…
View article: Fire-catalyzed vegetation shifts in ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir forests of the western United States
Fire-catalyzed vegetation shifts in ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir forests of the western United States Open
Increased wildfire activity combined with warm and dry post-fire conditions may undermine the mechanisms maintaining forest resilience to wildfires, potentially causing ecosystem transitions, or fire-catalyzed vegetation shifts. Stand-repl…
View article: Limitations to recovery following wildfire in dry forests of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, USA
Limitations to recovery following wildfire in dry forests of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, USA Open
Climate warming is contributing to increases in wildfire activity throughout the western United States, leading to potentially long‐lasting shifts in vegetation. The response of forest ecosystems to wildfire is thus a crucial indicator of …
View article: Wildfires and climate change push low-elevation forests across a critical climate threshold for tree regeneration
Wildfires and climate change push low-elevation forests across a critical climate threshold for tree regeneration Open
Climate change is increasing fire activity in the western United States, which has the potential to accelerate climate-induced shifts in vegetation communities. Wildfire can catalyze vegetation change by killing adult trees that could othe…
View article: Advancing Dendrochronological Studies of Fire in the United States
Advancing Dendrochronological Studies of Fire in the United States Open
Dendroecology is the science that dates tree rings to their exact calendar year of formation to study processes that influence forest ecology (e.g., Speer 2010 [1], Amoroso et al., 2017 [2]) [...]
View article: Cambial Phenology Informs Tree-Ring Analysis of Fire Seasonality in Coastal Plain Pine Savannas
Cambial Phenology Informs Tree-Ring Analysis of Fire Seasonality in Coastal Plain Pine Savannas Open
Understanding of historical fire seasonality should facilitate development of concepts regarding fire as an ecological and evolutionary process. In tree-ring based fire-history studies, the seasonality of fire scars can be classified based…
View article: Evidence for declining forest resilience to wildfires under climate change
Evidence for declining forest resilience to wildfires under climate change Open
Forest resilience to climate change is a global concern given the potential effects of increased disturbance activity, warming temperatures and increased moisture stress on plants. We used a multi‐regional dataset of 1485 sites across 52 w…
View article: Climate Drives Episodic Conifer Establishment after Fire in Dry Ponderosa Pine Forests of the Colorado Front Range, USA
Climate Drives Episodic Conifer Establishment after Fire in Dry Ponderosa Pine Forests of the Colorado Front Range, USA Open
In recent years, warming climate and increased fire activity have raised concern about post-fire recovery of western U.S. forests. We assessed relationships between climate variability and tree establishment after fire in dry ponderosa pin…
View article: Limited conifer regeneration following wildfires in dry ponderosa pine forests of the Colorado Front Range
Limited conifer regeneration following wildfires in dry ponderosa pine forests of the Colorado Front Range Open
In recent years, increased wildfire activity and climate change have raised concern among scientists and land managers regarding current and future vegetation patterns in post‐burn landscapes. We surveyed conifer regeneration 8–15 years af…