Browsing by Department "Ecosystem Science and Management"
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(2010-07-14)Training activities on the Fort Hood Military Installation have imposed serious impacts to its grass-dominated landscape. Six decades of tracked vehicle impacts have caused soil compaction and vegetation reduction which ...
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(2016-11-28)The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) serves as a means of legally identifying land in 30 out of 50 U.S. states. PLSS coordinates are frequently used to describe spatial data such as the locations of wildfires, but PLSS ...
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(2017-05-17)One of the main goals of applied forest ecology is to utilize silvicultural practices that generate economic output from forest products while simultaneously maintaining the long-term sustainability of forest stand properties ...
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(2019-11-18)Spiranthes parksii Correll is a rare terrestrial orchid endemic to only thirteen Texas counties, and is a federally listed endangered species in the United States due to habitat loss and fragmentation. Individual plants ...
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(2011-02-22)The overall goal of this study was to develop a framework for using airborne lidar to derive inputs for the SPB infestation growth model TAMBEETLE. The specific objectives were (1) to estimate individual tree characteristics ...
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Desertification of high latitude ecosystems: conceptual models, time-series analyses and experiments (2009-05-15)Ecosystem degradation in Iceland has been severe since man arrived 1100 years ago. Birch woodlands cover has declined from 25% of the land area, to only 1%. The deforestation is considered to be the initial stage in the ...
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Detection of Forest Mortality from the 2011 Texas Drought and Examination of Environmental Drivers (2016-05-02)Climate change projections have predicted more frequent and severe droughts that may lead to major loss of trees and subsequent range shifts. Drought-induced tree mortality leaves both dead & live trees intermixed that ...
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(2017-08-10)Interspecific hybridization can serve a number of purposes in plant breeding. When significant investments are required to produce and/or use hybrids, it is important to accurately differentiate between hybrid and non-hybrid ...
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(2021-06-22)These a the data supporting a paper submitted to the journal Heredity on 22 June 2021, entitled "Population genetics and independently replicated evolution of predator-associated body shape in mosquitofish" by authors TJ ...
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(2010-07-14)Hydrilla (Hydrilla verticillata) is an invasive aquatic plant that grows quickly across shallow freshwater habitats. It is a problem for recreational users of lakes and landowners. Grass carp (Ctenopharynogodon idella) is ...
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(2014-07-10)Climate change will likely affect the productivity of forests through changes in precipitation and moisture availability. An important measure of a plant’s ability to assimilate carbon in photosynthesis with limited water ...
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(2016-07-29)Increasing frequency and severity of storms has translated into a greater interest in coastal protection, due to fears of storm damage to homes and communities. In the past, communities used man-made structures such as sea ...
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(2010-07-14)The first objective of this study was to investigate the role of an invasive grass species, Arundo donax (L.), on the hydrologic cycle. At a site on the Rio Grande in South Texas, we measured the gas exchange of carbon ...
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(2012-10-19)This study focused on an invasive riparian reed grass, Arundo donax L., a clonal plant of the family Poaceae that is widely distributed in North America. Water availability, including water taken up from the roots locally ...
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(2012-04-22)Military training lands are among the most degraded rangelands in the United States. Tracked vehicle training represents the largest source of soil disturbance on these rangelands (Fang et al. 2002). Training activities ...
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(2020-04-24)The overarching goal of this study is to improve our understanding of ecohydrological process in tropical dry forests. Tropical dry forests provide ideal natural settings for ecohydrology research because of their distinct ...
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(2021-07-20)Sandy beach and dune ecosystems make up two-thirds of the world's ice-free coastline and constitute an important part of the global land-sea interface; however, rising sea levels, changing disturbance regimes, and expanding ...
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(2018-03-09)The pine plantations of the southern United States play a major role in the economies and carbon cycling of the region. Ensuring their long-term productivity will rely on information re-garding the ecosystem nutrient ...
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(2012-07-16)This study was conducted on two rangeland sites in south Texas with large populations of huisache (Acacia farnesiana (L.) Willd.); the Bush Ranch in Goliad County, and the Hitchcock Ranch in Bee County. The purpose of the ...
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(2016-05-02)Wood debris is an important C pool in forest ecosystems. Understanding the controls on wood decomposition is necessary for predicting the response of forest ecosystem carbon cycling to management and climate. The productivity ...