Browsing by Department "Forestry and Wildlife Sciences"
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Impacts of Land Use/Cover on Ecosystem Carbon Storage in Apalachicola, FL
(2009-03-10)
Rapid coastal development in response to a growing population raises concerns about human degradation of ecosystems. The importance of the carbon cycle and its role in climate regulation warrant the study of the effects ...
Implementing Residue Chippers On Harvesting Operation for Biomass Recovery
(2008-05-15)
Three operations that implemented a small residue chipper on their conventional logging operations were studied in 2006. Two of the jobs were thinning operations, the remaining operation conducted clearcuts. All three ...
Incorporating long-term spatial and temporal effects in a state space model to evaluate land management alternatives for imperiled species conservation in Alabama
(2013-05-14)
Conservation decisions are often made based on expected outcomes without full consideration of costs, likelihood of achieving targeted results, or spatial and temporal consequences of their implementation. We used structured ...
Influence of Chinese Privet (Ligustrum sinense Lour.) on Riparian Forests of the Southern Piedmont: Net Primary
(2008-12-15)
The spread of invasive, nonnative vegetation in the Southeast has been identified as a critical concern for the maintenance of ecosystem biodiversity and impacts on the forest industry. One example of such a species is ...
Influence of Competition on Longleaf Pine Seedling Recruitment in Selection Silviculture
(2010-01-13)
The longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) ecosystem’s decline has resulted in the loss of 97 percent of the 24-36 million hectares it covered prior to European settlement, but interest in longleaf pine restoration and ...
Influence of land use change on amphibian species assemblages and larval development
(2013-05-15)
Land use alterations can have significant impacts on wetland ecosystems. One of the most notable impacts is altered flood regimes which can influence organisms dependent upon those waters. Amphibians, with their recent ...
Influence of microtopography and nutrient limitation on belowground productivity in an old-growth floodplain forest at Congaree National Park, SC, USA
(2014-02-07)
This study was designed to improve our understanding of nutrient cycling, C storage and belowground net primary productivity (BNPP) in an old-growth floodplain forest. Four microsites were established parallel to the ...
Influence of Spatial and Temporal Use of Resources by a Top Predator on Use of Resources by Co-occurring Species of Mesopredators and Prey
(2011-11-16)
Use of resources by a species can be influenced by interactions with co-occurring species. Use of both space and time can be altered to putatively reduce interspecific competition or risk of predation. I used occupancy ...
Information Exchange Among Environmental Groups in Alabama and Romania
(2006-12-15)
According to resource mobilization theory, organizations need certain resources such as skills, money, and knowledge, to survive. For this research I consider information to be a key resource and use the resource mobilization ...
Interregional Aspects of Timber Inventory Projections
(2004-12-15)
The overall goal of this study is to explore interregional aspects of modeling timber supply. Three separate papers are presented in this dissertation.
The first paper (Chapter 3) presents an econometric analysis of ...
Legacy Sediments in Southeastern United States Coastal Plain Streams
(2009-12-14)
Soil erosion and sedimentation are natural processes that occur throughout the landscape. However, athropogenic disturbances may result in an increase in either of these processes, or both. Many studies reported the extensive ...
Mapping Loblolly Pine Decline Hazard and Risk across the Southeastern United States
(2012-07-25)
Loblolly Pine Decline was first noted in 1959 in the Oakmulgee and Tuscaloosa Ranger Districts in the Talladega National Forest, located in the southeastern United States. This slow mortality is not new to the area, but ...
Mate Choice, Reproductive Success, and How Population Demography Influences Fawning Season of White-tailed Deer
(2014-05-13)
Mate choice of white-tailed deer based on age and body size is poorly understood. I studied a captive population to evaluate mate choice and reproductive success. Age differences between mated pairs did not differ from ...
Modeling Hydrologic and Water Quality Responses to Changing Climate and Land Use/Cover in the Wolf Bay Watershed, South Alabama
(2010-11-17)
Land use/cover (LULC) and climate change are two main factors directly affecting regional hydrology and water quality. In this study, the future potential impacts of LULC and climate change on the hydrologic regimes and ...
Modeling impact of Land Use/ Cover changes on Water Quality and Quantity of Fish River Watershed
(2010-07-13)
Hydrologic and water quality models are widely used for assessing the impacts of land use/cover (LULC) changes on water quality and quantity. However, their credibility for predicting LULC change impacts has not been tested ...
Morphological and Nutritional Development of Three Species of Nursery-Grown Hardwood Seedlings in Tennessee
(2006-12-15)
We followed the morphological and nutritional development of three common hardwood species growing under typical cultural practices in a southern hardwood nursery. Yellow poplar was by far the largest seedling at the end ...
Nutrient Dynamics in an Old-Growth Bottomland Forest: Congaree National Park, South Carolina
(2013-12-16)
Floodplains are important landscapes that act as boundaries between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Past research efforts have illustrated that floodplains perform many beneficial functions, such as sediment retention ...
Occupancy and Detection Probabilities of Secretive Marsh Birds in the Kissimmee Chain of Lakes, Florida
(2011-07-18)
Loss of marsh habitat has led to population declines of many species of North American marsh birds. However, due to the secretive nature of many of these species there is uncertainty about their population. Recently ...
Occurrence and Habitat Use of Bats in Central Alabama Forests
(2012-04-10)
Limited information is available on the relationship between characteristics of landscape and seasonal use of habitat for forest-dwelling bats in central Alabama. This study was designed to clarify these relationships and ...
Overcoming the Littleleaf Myth: Establishing a Shortleaf Pine Silvopasture on Redstone Arsenal
(2012-05-08)
This study examines the potential for implementing agroforestry practices, subject to soil suitability parameters, relating to the establishment and long-term management of shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata Mill.) on Redstone ...