Browsing by Subject "Forestry"
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A MULTIVARIATE ASSESSMENT OF THE CONNECTICUT LAKES FOREST ECOSYSTEM , NH
(2007-05)Following 100 years of intense timber harvest and in the face of potential future development, the northeastern forest ecosystem is in a period of transition. To protect forest biodiversity, wildlife habitat, water quality ... -
America’s Evolving Relationship with Trees: A Statistical Analysis of Social, Economic, and Environmental Drivers of Forest Management
(2021)In the spirit of American individualism, the majority of the United States’ forested landscape is controlled by private landowners, who make autonomous decisions that impact a shared wealth of biodiversity and ecosystem ... -
Assessing Extent to Which US Southeastern Woody Biomass Supply Can Meet Renewable Electricity Demand in Present and Future Scenarios
(2010-12-10)Woody biomass has rapidly come to the forefront of renewable energy discussions as a potentially reliable and affordable energy solution. The reason for such is rooted in international and domestic policy evolution. The ... -
Changing the Paradigm: Inventory Review and Scenario Modeling for the Duke Forest
(2017-04-28)Since it was founded in 1931, the Duke Forest has shown a commitment to sustainable timber management practices and forestry education. However, in recent years, a misalignment between revenue expectations and the timber ... -
Climate Change and Forest Biodiversity in the Eastern United States: Insights from Inventory Data
(2014)Ecologists have long been interested in the relationships between climate change and forest biodiversity. For centuries, the scientific problems remain understanding the patterns of climate variation, forest geographic ... -
Costa Rica's payment for environmental services program: intention, implementation, and impact.
(Conserv Biol, 2007-10)We evaluated the intention, implementation, and impact of Costa Rica's program of payments for environmental services (PSA), which was established in the late 1990s. Payments are given to private landowners who own land ... -
Deadwood stocks increase with selective logging and large tree frequency in Gabon.
(Glob Chang Biol, 2017-04)Deadwood is a major component of aboveground biomass (AGB) in tropical forests and is important as habitat and for nutrient cycling and carbon storage. With deforestation and degradation taking place throughout the tropics, ... -
Decoupling the effects of logging and hunting on an afrotropical animal community.
(Ecol Appl, 2011-07)In tropical forests, hunting nearly always accompanies logging. The entangled nature of these disturbances complicates our ability to resolve applied questions, such as whether secondary and degraded forest can ... -
Four-decade responses of soil trace elements to an aggrading old-field forest: B, Mn, Zn, Cu, and Fe.
(Ecology, 2008-10)In the ancient and acidic Ultisol soils of the Southern Piedmont, USA, we studied changes in trace element biogeochemistry over four decades, a period during which formerly cultivated cotton fields were planted with pine ... -
Longterm Approaches to Assessing Tree Community Responses to Resource Limitation and Climate Variation
(2011)The effects of climate change on forest dynamics will be determined by tree responses at different life-stages and different scales -- from establishment to maturity and from individuals to populations. Studies incorporating ... -
Monitoring and Forecasting Forest Drought Stress to a Changing Climate
(2017)Globally, trees are increasingly dying from extreme droughts and heatwaves, a trend that is expected to increase with climate change. Loss of trees has significant ecological, biophysical, and biogeochemical consequences. ... -
Multi-Objective GIS Analysis for Avoided Conversion Carbon Credits and Biodiversity Conservation
(2019-12-06)This project develops a unique methodology in identifying individual tax parcels in North Carolina as possible locations for generating avoided conversion carbon offset credits, as well as including co-benefits such as ecological ... -
Oil and gas projects in the Western Amazon: threats to wilderness, biodiversity, and indigenous peoples.
(PLoS One, 2008-08-13)BACKGROUND: The western Amazon is the most biologically rich part of the Amazon basin and is home to a great diversity of indigenous ethnic groups, including some of the world's last uncontacted peoples living in voluntary ... -
Project Evaluation of Sustainable Upland Hardwood Management in the U.S. South with the Monetization of Carbon
(2011-04-29)Many studies have demonstrated that working pine forests can be cost-effectively managed to enhance carbon sequestration under various, mostly hypothetical compensation frameworks but none have assessed the creditable carbon ... -
Protected Areas' Impacts on Brazilian Amazon Deforestation: Examining Conservation-Development Interactions to Inform Planning.
(PLoS One, 2015)Protected areas are the leading forest conservation policy for species and ecoservices goals and they may feature in climate policy if countries with tropical forest rely on familiar tools. For Brazil's Legal Amazon, we ... -
Replanting Durham's Urban Forest
(2016-04-28)Urban forests are the trees found within city limits along streets, in parks, and in backyards. This urban forest offers many ecosystem services that range from stormwater control to climate change mitigation. In the context ...
