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| | Forest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Tropical and subtropical forests include tropical rainforests, tropical and subtropical moist forests, tropical and subtropical dry forests, and tropical and subtropical coniferous forests. | | | Forests are often home to many animal and plant species, and biomass per unit area is high compared to other vegetation communities. | | | Forests are differentiated from woodlands by the extent of canopy coverage: in a forest the branches and foliage of separate trees often meet or interlock, although there can be gaps of varying sizes within an area referred to as forest. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest
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| | Temperate hardwood forest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | These forests support ecosystems that are very different from cold-climate evergreen forests, and from most tropical forests, exhibiting an extreme cycling involving leaf fall, a cold winter and dormancy. | | | A temperate hardwood forest is a type of forest found in temperate zones around the globe. | | | This forest type is included in the biome labeled Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardwood_forest
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| | NCSSF - Transition Hardwoods |
| | In the forested setting, abandoned homesites persist, stone walls are a constant reminder of past land use, dates of farm abandonment influence forest availability for harvest, and operational details such as the layout of skid trails and landings are often driven by the spatial arrangement of long-disused agricultural lanes. | | | Remaining forests were relentlessly harvested for timber and fuel during the agricultural period (Cogbill et al. | | | Forests increased statewide as agricultural land decreased; only 7% of Massachusetts is in agriculture today (Foster 1999, Hall et al. |
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http://www.unh.edu/ncssf/results-transition-hardwoods.htm
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| | Nature Works - Temperate Deciduous Forests |
| | Temperate deciduous forests have a great variety of plant species. | | | The temperate deciduous forest is a biome that is always changing. | | | Because the soil is very fertile and hardwood trees are good for building, this biome has some of the world's largest population centers in it. |
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http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/nwep8c.htm
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| | Florida Forestry Information - Temperate Hardwood Forests |
| | Temperate hardwood forests or hammocks as they are often called in Florida, occur along the coastal plain of the southeastern U.S. from the Carolinas to eastern Texas. | | | Florida hardwood hammocks are theoretically delineated according to soil moisture. | | | However, these forests are more often defined by their location and vegetation than by measures of soil moisture. |
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http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/Extension/ffws/thf.htm
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| | Hardwood Forest Selected Resources |
| | Hardwood or deciduous forests are predominantly composed of broad-leaved trees and associated plants. | | | A temperate hardwood forest is a type of forest found in temperate... | | | Upland hardwoods on the Baars-Firestone Nature Trail, UWF campus, located in a gradient between pine sandhill and swamp forest of the Escambia River and its tributaries. |
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http://www.wood-flooring-net.info/resources/hardwood-forest.html
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| | Plant Glossary: F - EnchantedLearning.com |
| | A forest is an area in which trees are the dominant plant. | | | The forest floor is the lowest layer of a rainforest, extending from the ground to about 3 feet (1 m) high. | | | FOrest or plant succession is the natural pattern of ecosystem growth and change over time for a particular environment. |
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http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/plants/glossary/indexf.shtml
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| | Lee Frelich: Publications |
| | Discordance in spatial patterns of white pine (Pinus strobus) size-classes in a patchy near-boreal forest. | | | Red pine growth and chemical composition of foliage and forest floors across a precipitationchemistry gradient in Wisconsin. | | | Changes in cold-temperate hardwood forest understory plant communities in response to invasion by European earthworms. |
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http://www.cnr.umn.edu/FR/CFHE/publication_frelich.html
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| | THE FOREST COMMONS |
| | The forests continue to yield while remaining healthy eco-systems; the product brings a price that is above that of cultivated ginseng; and there is no need for the heavy investment in acres of crop coverings and in the extensive cultivation and pesticide control necessary for the far lower-priced cultivated product. | | | Forests were "waste" or at best a source of raw materials that could be cut so that the land could be cultivated. | | | Use of private forest for recreation is one of the hardest areas to control. |
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http://www.uky.edu/OtherOrgs/AppalFor/commons.html
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| | forests of the world |
| | Savannah-type forests occur in North America where there is heavy rainfall: on the open prairies of Canada east of the Rockies, and on the plains of the United States as far south as the Gulf of Mexico. | | | To the south of the temperate region, mixed forest of conifers and broad-leaved evergreen trees grow. | | | Below the temperate zones there are the sub-tropical forests of Europe, Central and West Africa, India, Asia, South Africa, Central and South America and Southern and Western Australia. |
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http://www.hillinstruments.com/rain_forest.htm
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| | Integrative Biology 363 |
| | In addition, there is temperate deciduous forest (about 27%) (mainly in Siberia, China, Japan and Asia Minor) and tropical hardwood forest (about 30%) in India, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and nearby areas. | | | Europe was once almost totally forest, but today is less than 1/3 and most of that is managed. | | | In the south, there is gymnospermous forest and temperate hardwoods. |
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http://www.life.uiuc.edu/ib/363/WOOD.html
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| | North Central Research Station - Paoli Experimental Forest |
| | The great soil group is the gray-brown podzolic soil found in the temperate, humid hardwood forest region. | | | The climate is temperate, with long summers and mild winters. | | | The oak-hickory type is found on the upper slopes and ridges. |
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http://www.ncrs.fs.fed.us/EF/paoli
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| | The study area is within a temperate hardwood forest, otherwise known as a “hammock”, and is composed of both evergreen and deciduous tree species. | | | Background Temperate hardwood forests commonly occur along the coastal plain of the southeastern United States from the Carolinas to eastern Texas. | | | This type of ecosystem, commonly referred to as a hardwood hammock is often a mix of deciduous and evergreen species. |
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http://www.fsu.edu/~geog/stallins/fm/AllenApril.doc
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| | Soil water content, soil respiration, and a summer drought in well-drained and poorly-drained soils of a temperate forest. | | | Soil water content and temperature as independent or confounded factors controlling soil respiration in a temperate mixed hardwood forest. | | | The mean annual estimate of soil CO2 efflux was 7.2 Mg ha-1, but ranged from 5.3 in the swamp site to 8.5 in a well-drained site, indicating that spatial heterogeneity of soil CO2 efflux within the forest is related to soil drainage class (Table 1). |
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http://nigec.ucdavis.edu/publications/ar/annual96/northeast/project5.html
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| | 2-36.html |
| | Habitat An understorey tree of mixed Araucaria forest and temperate hardwood forest, also occurring in more humid subtropical areas, ranging in altitude between 500 and 1500m. | | | In Brazil massive declines in the extent of Araucaria forest have resulted in declines in the extent of I. | | | Conservation Measures Forest Management and Silviculture Production stands are created by thinning out other species or by enrichment planting with I. |
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http://www.unep-wcmc.org/species/tree_study/americas/2-36.html
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| | Facts on oak wood ... - Sept. 25, 2003 |
| | Since its small pores, or openings, are lined up straight from the tree's heartwood up to its sapwood and due to its aromatic smell and eventual resistance to wood-boring insects, oak wood is the most popular material for the manufacture of wooden barrels which are essential in aging world-quality branded wines. | | | In the United States, the oak tree, whether it is white, red, burr or cork, is one of the tree species found within two of its three forest types-the Temperate Hardwood Forest in the northeast and the sub-tropical Evergreen Forest in the southwest. |
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http://www.inq7.net/opi/2003/sep/25/text/letter_1-1-p.htm
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| | Forest Ecosystem Ecology at UW-Madison - Research |
| | The temperate crop site has alternate crops of corn and soybean; it is located near Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. | | | A total of four sites were selected for the BigFoot study: a boreal forest (NOBS), a temperate hardwood forest (HARV), an agriculture cropland (AGRO), and tallgrass prairie grassland (KONZ). | | | Similar analyses will be conducted for the tallgrass prairie (KONZ) and temperate forest (HARV) study area in 200 and 2001. |
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http://forestecology.forest.wisc.edu/bigfoot.html
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| | 10/10/00 -- Company plants trees in anticipation of pollution credits |
| | By the early 1990s, clearing and draining for agriculture and other development, had whittled the forested wetlands to its present 4.9 million acres. | | | Almost 400 acres of trees have been planted in Tennessee by a Houston-based energy company that is replinishing forests in the Lower Mississippi Valley in anticipation of federal rules that may allow the company to use the trees for pollution credits. | | | Although they differ on the severity and ramifications of the problem, many scientists agree that the rising levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases could result in long-term climate changes. |
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http://forests.org/archive/america/copltree.htm
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| | Temperate Deciduous Forest Biome |
| | A savanna-like transition zone is formed along the western edge of the oak-hickory region where the temperate deciduous forest biome grades into the temperate grasslands biome. | | | Because the biome covers such a large geographical area, large differences have led to the recognition of eight major forest regions within the biome, each dominated by a different species or association of species. | | | Pitch pine (Pinus rigida) is a common successional species. |
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http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/Forsite/tdfbiome.htm
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| | UPLANDS |
| | Drive to a longleaf pine forest either Wade Longleaf Forest, Greenwood Plantation, or Melton Plantation; explain fire ecology of longleaf and associated species of plants and animals, Gopher tortoise ecosystem and ca. | | | Rare ridge crest hardwood forest of magnolia-pignut hickory and other elements of the beech-magnolia association, naturally protected from fire. | | | Oldfield shortleaf/loblolly forest in 15-year stage with annual burning. |
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http://www.brucemeans.com/uplands.htm
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| | Curriculum Vitae - Mark S. Castro |
| | Microbial controls of methane oxidation in temperate forest and agricultural soils. | | | Soil moisture as a predictor of methane uptake by temperate forest soils. | | | Factors controlling atmospheric methane consumption by temperate forest ecosystems. |
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http://al.umces.edu/castro.html
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| | Untitled Document |
| | and surrounded by loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) and mixed temperate hardwood forest. | | | The clearing is approximately 480m x 305m, dominated by the C3 grass Festuca arundinaria Shreb. | | | The field includes minor components of C3 herbs and the C4 grass Schizachrium scoparium. |
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http://www.biology.duke.edu/bio265/zhangmin/sitedata.html
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| | Florida Outdoors Recreation Information for Florida Visitors and Tourists |
| | In the north central part of Florida, the hammocks begin to transition from ones dominated by temperate species to one with a tropical influence. | | | Evergreen oaks grow with gumbo-limbo, mastic, strangler figs, and a variety of tropical understory plants. | | | Often referred to as hammocks, these habitats typically occur between the pine flatwoods and the numerous wetland habitats. |
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http://www.florida-outdoors.com/hw.htm
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| | Korean Long-term Ecological Research |
| | The other two are the forests of Mt. Kyebangsan and Mt. Keumsan. | | | Three official sites (Kwangnung Experimental Forest, Mt. Kyebangsan Forest, and Mt. Keumsan Forest), which are managed by the Forestry Research Institute, as well as three potential sites (Lake Soyang, Mt. Jumbongsan, and Mt. Hallasan) are introduced here. | | | Research topics Distribution of vascular plant; forest dynamics and biodiversity; growth decline of Korean fir; climate change and global warming; transboundary transport of air pollutants; impact assessment of human activities and wild deer to ecosystem; restoration of biodiversity; hydrologic modeling |
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http://www.ilternet.edu/networks/korea
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| | Search Fellows - Richard D. Boone Ph.D. |
| | His research has focused on nitrogen cycling in forest soils, soil respiration, and soil organic matter dynamics. | | | Soil water content and temperature as independent or confounded factors controlling soil respiration in a temperate mixed forest. | | | Contribution of aboveground litter, belowground litter, and root respiration to total soil respiration in a temperate mixed hardwood forest. |
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http://www.leopoldleadership.org/content/fellows/search-detail.jsp?id=58
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| | Harvard Forest Symposium Abstract Submission |
| | Response of soil respiration to rain in a temperate, hardwood forest in Massachusetts | | | This may also be an indication that this is a site with excessive soil moisture and water is not a limiting factor for soil respiration here. | | | Our preliminary observation suggests that initial soil moisture conditions may be a factor that influences the magnitude of the response of soil respiration to rain. |
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http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/asp/hf/showsymposium.html?id=6
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| | Disturbance Regime of a Temperate Hardwood forest as deduced from Treering Patterns: Mt. Jumbong Forest in Korea. | | | Disturbance Regime of a Temperate Hardwood forest from Treering Patterns: Mt. Jumbong in Korea. | | | Ko, D. and He, H. A modeling approach on forest landscape response to landownership fragmentation in the Ozark Central Hardwood Region. |
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http://www.snr.missouri.edu/~liw/cgi-bin/PSPubs/KoPubs.cgi
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| | The Forest Stewardship Council :: News & Media |
| | The most diverse forest is the healthiest—the most resistant to pests and disease as well as market fluctuations." Kane Hardwood has worked hard to create a market for the other hardwoods, like red maple, oak, ash, poplar, beech, sugar maple, tulip poplar, white oak, and basswood. | | | “While cherry is the most valuable wood in the Pennsylvania forests, it’s important to keep in mind that in a temperate hardwood forest you have about 10 species of wood," explained Puller. | | | Wines and jellies are made from the ripe, somewhat bitter, black cherries; a wild cherry cough syrup is made from the bark; and the wood is used in furniture making. |
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http://www.fscus.org/news/index.php?article=25
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| | Florida Wildflowers in Their Natural Communities - a book from the University Press of Florida |
| | Taylor provides detailed descriptions and color photos of each community--pine flatwoods, sandhills, upland pine forest, scrub, temperate hardwood forest, coastal uplands, subtropical pine forest, tropical hardwood hammock, and ruderal sites--and of the wildflower species associated with each. | | | For each flower, he provides the scientific and common names, a brief description, flowering time, habitats, geographical range, color photo, and miscellaneous comments. | | | This book is the first of its kind for Florida. |
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http://www.upf.com/Fall1998/taylor.html
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| | And it is especially difficult when there is a profound shift in the nature of the forest itself; transitioning from say, a tropical hardwood forest to a temperate hardwood forest. | | | Without a major event to rouse public or corporate attention (i.e., the equivalent of another Silent Spring), this transition remains off the radar screen. | | | Much is available on the individual issues such as RoHS (the trees), but an integrated picture has yet to be widely recognized (the forest). |
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http://www.stevenspublishing.com/stevens/eppub.nsf/pubhome/f98043e611491f718625704300653ec5?opendocument
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| | Temperate Hardwood Forests |
| | This type of forest is also known as a hammock. | | | Click on these thumbnails of insects and arthropods for more information about each | | | They are located primarily in the panhandle and central regions of Florida. |
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http://www.flaentsoc.org/arthropdiversity/temperate_hardwood_forests.htm
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| | History - Heartwood |
| | Those gathered recognized that their separate efforts to protect local forests were in fact parts of a larger regional effort to protect and restore the majesty, mystery, and biological diversity of the temperate hardwood forest. | | | Where no existing organization could be found, Heartwood helped local citizens organize to defend their local forests, and to participate at the regional level. | | | This resulted in the protection of tens of thousands of acres of public forests across the country. |
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http://www.heartwood.org/history.htm
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| | WGBH Programs |
| | In the Forest: Visit the plants and animals of a northern temperate forest. | | | Create a rug using carpet scraps and paint showing various animal prints. | | | The bag shape is perfect for the owl, since they can't actually move their eyes and need to move their entire head to see. |
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http://www.wgbh.org/schedules/program-info?episode_id=2383443&program_id=2383301
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| | Simulated Hurricane Experiment - Trace Gas Fluxes and Soil N Dynamics |
| | Fluxes of greenhouse gases between soils and the atmosphere in a temperate forest following a simulated hurricane blowdown. | | | Emissions of CO2 and uptake of CH4 for the control plot were 4.92 MT C ha-1 y-1 and 3.87 kg C ha-1 y-1, respectively, and were not significantly different from the blowdown plot. | | | "Fluxes of nitrous oxide (N2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), and methane (CH4) between soils and the atmosphere were measured monthly for one year in a 77-year-old temperate hardwood forest following a simulated hurricane blowdown. |
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http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/data/eml/hf052.xml
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| | During 2004, CVI began work on the prioritization model, which involves ranking watersheds according to degree of human impacts such as acidification, urbanization, nutrient loading, forest fragmentation, and sedimentation. | | | and the largest temperate hardwood forest in the | | | The Mid-Atlantic Highlands features the most diverse forests in North America |
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http://www.canaanvi.org/canaanvi_web/arp.aspx?collection=star&id=123
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| | washingtonpost.com: Razing West Virginia |
| | West Virginia is home to the mixed mesophytic forest, the most biologically diverse temperate hardwood forest on Earth. | | | West Virginia is blessed with abundant fresh water, which, in the long run, will prove to be a far more important resource for our state -- and for the nation -- than coal. | | | Federal studies say it will take centuries for the forest to recover from mountaintop-removal coal mining, which is gobbling up huge swaths of southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and parts of Tennessee and Virginia. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A30301-2004Sep17?language=printer
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