Will the emblematic southern conifer Araucaria angustifolia survive to climate change in Brazil?
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DOI: 10.1007/s10531-019-01900-x
Abstract: Conifer forests dominated by Araucaria pines (Araucaria angustifolia) are emblematic of the humid forests in the southeast of Brazil, South America. However, these forests are highly fragmented and threatened by climate change. Despite the ecological… read more here.
Keywords: araucaria angustifolia; change; climate; conifer ... See more keywords
Understory physical structures reduce browsing damage to palatable shrubs in a dry conifer forest, western North America
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DOI: 10.1007/s11258-021-01144-2
Abstract: High densities of cattle (Bos taurus) and wild ungulates (Rocky Mountain elk, Cervus canadensis; mule deer, Odocoileus hemionus) have impacted the abundance and population dynamics of palatable woody species in forests of the interior Pacific… read more here.
Keywords: protection; physical structures; woody; foliar overlap ... See more keywords
Forest succession along a productivity gradient following fire exclusion
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DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2017.02.050
Abstract: Abstract Numerous studies have documented significant change in conifer forests of the American West following the cessation of recurrent fire at the end of the 19th century. But the successional dynamics that characterize different forested… read more here.
Keywords: productivity gradient; fire; conifer; change ... See more keywords
The relative performance of smooth snakes inhabiting open heathland and conifer plantations
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DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2018.06.020
Abstract: Abstract Different habitat types that support similar densities of a particular species may not be equally suitable for that species and this may impact on the ability of that species to grow, reproduce, and survive.… read more here.
Keywords: conifer; performance; inhabiting open; open heathland ... See more keywords
Linking standard Economic Account for Forestry and ecosystem accounting: Total forest incomes and environmental assets in publicly-owned conifer farms in Andalusia-Spain
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102482
Abstract: Abstract A major problem faced by government as trustee of society charged with conserving the nation's forest environmental asset is that the standard Economic Account for Forestry (EAF) fails to measure the contribution of nature… read more here.
Keywords: forestry; conifer farm; conifer; forest incomes ... See more keywords
The Sage-Grouse Habitat Mortgage: Effective Conifer Management in Space and Time☆
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rama.2016.08.012
Abstract: ABSTRACT Management of conservation-reliant species can be complicated by the need to manage ecosystem processes that operate at extended temporal horizons. One such process is the role of fire in regulating abundance of expanding conifers… read more here.
Keywords: conifer; sage grouse; grouse habitat; time ... See more keywords
The western redcedar genome reveals low genetic diversity in a self-compatible conifer
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DOI: 10.1101/gr.276358.121
Abstract: We assembled the 9.8 Gbp genome of western redcedar (WRC, Thuja plicata), an ecologically and economically important conifer species of the Cupressaceae. The genome assembly, derived from a uniquely inbred tree produced through five generations… read more here.
Keywords: western redcedar; genetic diversity; conifer; diversity ... See more keywords
Restoring Sage‐grouse nesting habitat through removal of early successional conifer
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DOI: 10.1111/rec.12524
Abstract: Conifer woodlands have expanded into sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems and degrade habitat for sagebrush obligate species such as the Greater Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus). Conifer management is increasing despite a lack of empirical evidence assessing outcomes… read more here.
Keywords: sage grouse; habitat; sage; removal ... See more keywords
Implications of tree expansion in shrubland ecosystems for two generalist avian predators
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0286478
Abstract: Shrublands globally have undergone structural changes due to plant invasions, including the expansion of native trees. Removal of native conifer trees, especially juniper (Juniperus spp.), is occurring across the Great Basin of the western U.S.… read more here.
Keywords: habitat use; expansion; conifer; generalist ... See more keywords
Mixed-Severity Fire Fosters Heterogeneous Spatial Patterns of Conifer Regeneration in a Dry Conifer Forest
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DOI: 10.3390/f9010045
Abstract: We examined spatial patterns of post-fire regenerating conifers in a Colorado, USA, dry conifer forest 11–12 years following the reintroduction of mixed-severity fire. We mapped and measured all post-fire regenerating conifers, as well as all… read more here.
Keywords: severity fire; mixed severity; post fire; conifer ... See more keywords