Knowing your native plant community helps you understand how your woodland functions and what management approaches are most likely to succeed.

‐ natural disturbance regimes ‐ biotic interactions — such as mutualism (including such mutualists as mycorrhizal networks (MNs)), competition, parasitism, predation (which includes browsing/grazing ...

Natural factors such as pine beetle destruction and fire pose more of a threat than humans to Canadian lynx habitat in Colorado — at least for now. Scientists with the U.S. Forest Service, Colorado ...

Litter fall in a southern Appalachian Mountain forest varied considerably along the edge to center gradient of different sized disturbance patches. Annual inputs in undisturbed forest were 534 g/m 2 ...