Browsing by Department "Forestry and Wildlife Science"
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Long term Drivers of Hydrological change in the Southeastern United States
(2020-07-17)
Plant response to elevated CO2 concentration is known to increase leaf‐level water‐use efficiency through a reduction in stomatal opening. Recent studies have emphasized that increased plant water‐use efficiency can ...
Mapping of Urban Tree Canopy Using LiDAR, Oblique Image Viewers and Geographic Object Based Image Analysis (GeOBIA): a Multi-Scale Approach
(2018-07-20)
The benefits of an urban forest canopy have become more readily understood in recent years. They provide a wealth of environmental, social, and economic benefits such as improved water quality, air temperature regulation, ...
A Meta-Analysis of Bird-Window Collision Solutions
(2023-11-27)
North American bird populations are declining and bird-window collisions are a leading cause, resulting in 365 - 988 million bird deaths each year in the U.S. alone. One approach aimed at reducing these collisions is ...
Methane Exchanges between Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Atmosphere in Response to Multiple Environmental Changes - A Process-Based Modeling Study
(2016-07-29)
Methane (CH4), the most abundant non-carbon dioxide (CO2) greenhouse gas, has a relatively shorter lifetime (approx. 9 years) and higher global warming potential (approx. 28 times) than CO2 at a 100-year time horizon. The ...
Modeling Soil Moisture Dynamics in Wetlands
(2021-07-19)
Soil moisture distribution and fluxes are among the fundamental components of the hydrological cycle. One-dimensional Richard’s Equation (hereafter RE) is often used to represent the physics of water moisture distribution ...
Monitoring Strategies and Occupancy Analysis for the Reintroduced Eastern Indigo Snake in Conecuh National Forest, Alabama
(2023-05-02)
The Eastern Indigo Snake (Drymarchon couperi) was presumed extirpated from its native range in Alabama in the 1950’s and was added to the Endangered Species List in 1978. A reintroduction program for the species began in ...
Movement, Occupancy, and Detectability of Green Salamanders (Aneides aeneus) in Northern Alabama
(2017-05-16)
Green salamanders (Aneides aeneus) are a species of concern throughout their range due to habitat modification and population declines. With few short-term movement studies on the species, the information is vital to better ...
Multi-scale Habitat Relationships of Grassland Vertebrates in the East Gulf Coastal Plain and Understanding the Consequences of Error in Broad-scale Land Cover Data
(2016-08-04)
Grasslands in the southeastern United States are an ecologically important habitat that has experienced habitat loss and degradation. Conservation efforts have increased the utilization of remotely sensed land cover data ...
Nanocellulose-based Composite Hydrogels for Water Remediation
(2023-11-27)
Water quality issues caused by chemical contaminants are a major challenge that humanity is
facing in the twenty-first century. Designing an environmentally benign bio-adsorbent material for
the removal of pollutants ...
New approach on Phenol-Formaldehyde resins for Wood Composites
(2020-07-30)
Almost two-thirds of the state of Alabama is covered by forest. This generates a substantial market for wood products. Engineered wood products named particleboards (PB) are useful for low load bearing applications. Even ...
A New Era for Forest Operations in the Southeastern Region of the United States
(2018-12-10)
Forest operations in the southeastern region of the United States has remained relatively unchanged since the inception of conventional mechanized equipment. As new technologies are developed, new operational techniques ...
Nitrogen and Phosphorus Dynamics along the Terrestrial-Ocean Continuum in Changing Environment: Integrating Geospatial Data with Process-based Model
(2022-06-01)
Nitrogen (N) and Phosphorus (P) are critical elements required by organisms for cellular processes and are the key limiting nutrients in most terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. However, massive nutrients have entered the ...
Occupancy Rates of Eastern Wild Turkeys: Estimating effects of experimental harvest regulations and automating image analysis
(2019-08-18)
Each chapter in this thesis contributes to the available knowledge about turkey populations in Alabama, the effects of management on those populations, and the ability to conduct cost-effective surveys for monitoring their ...
Open Conversations: Finding ways to improve communication between family forest landowners and consulting foresters
(2023-07-26)
Alabama is comprised of 23 million acres of forestland, of which family forest landowners (FFLs) own 56 % of that acreage. Therefore, FFLs are vital to maintaining the quality and diversity of Alabama’s forests. However, ...
Ophiostomatoid Fungal Infection and Insect Diversity in a Mature Loblolly Pine Stand
(2019-04-16)
Root-feeding beetles and weevils are known vectors of ophiostomatoid fungi, such as
Leptographium and Grosmannia, that have been associated with a phenomenon called Southern
Pine Decline in the Southeastern United States. ...
Overstory management to regenerate longleaf pine and control invasive Chinese tallow in fire ecosystems
(2017-04-17)
The native longleaf pine ecosystem is one of the most important, and depleted, ecosystems in the southeastern United States. Restoring this habitat is of major importance to land managers and conservationists alike. ...
Patterns of Testosterone in White-tailed Deer and their Relationship to Reproductive Success
(2020-05-15)
Testosterone governs most facets of reproduction in vertebrates, and its effects on behavior and sexually selected traits have been documented in many species. We evaluated annual and lifetime patterns of circulating serum ...
Physiological and Phenological Responses to Experimental Throughfall Reduction and Parameterization of the 3-PG Model for Modeling Long-Term Responses to Climate Change in Longleaf Pine Forests
(2021-11-29)
Ongoing changes in the earth’s climate are having profound effects on forest ecosystems in many regions. Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) is considered one of the most drought-resistant pines in the southeastern U.S. ...
Pigs by the sounder: wild pigs, whole sounder removal, and their effects on deer and turkey
(2021-01-06)
Wild pigs (Sus scrofa) are an invasive species in North America with known negative impacts on agricultural lands and native ecosystems. To explore one commonly used, but ill-described management strategy, we implemented ...
Policy Narratives surrounding Port Infrastructure Projects adjacent to Coral Reefs in Florida and the Cayman Islands
(2022-05-04)
Coral reefs hold immense economic, ecological, and cultural value but are severely threatened by climate change and other local stressors, such as coastal development projects. In Florida and the Cayman Islands, two locations ...