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Effects of repeated prescribed fires on the structure, composition, and regeneration of mixed-oak forests in Ohio
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In this paper, the authors quantified prescribed fire effects at four sites in southern Ohio, from 1995 to 2002, and found that fire intensity was highest on the 2× burn units.About:
This article is published in Forest Ecology and Management.The article was published on 2005-10-24. It has received 210 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Prescribed burn & Basal area.read more
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Multiple interacting ecosystem drivers: toward an encompassing hypothesis of oak forest dynamics across eastern North America
TL;DR: It is suggested that oak forests are reacting to marked changes in a suite of interlocking factors based on climate change, land-use change, the loss of foundation and keystone species, and dynamics in herbivore populations.
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Prescribed fire effects on the herbaceous layer of mixed-oak forests
Todd F. Hutchinson,Ralph E. J. Boerner,Steve Sutherland,Elaine Kennedy Sutherland,Marilyn Ortt,Louis R. Iverson +5 more
TL;DR: Though species composition was significantly affected by fire, the effects were shown by ordination to be small in magnitude relative to overall compositional variation and to be not large in magnitude.
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A Meta-Analysis of the Fire-Oak Hypothesis: Does Prescribed Burning Promote Oak Reproduction in Eastern North America?
TL;DR: This article performed a meta-analysis on the data from 32 prescribed fire studies conducted in mixed-oak forests to test whether they supported the fire-oak hypothesis and found that prescribed fire can contribute to sustaining oak forests in some situations.
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Fire and the Development of Oak Forests
TL;DR: Nowacki et al. as discussed by the authors studied the dominance of oak in presettlement forests and found that oak dominance is more pronounced on mesic rather than on xeric sites, where most oaks are considered early to midsuccessional species.
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Forest Resources of the United States, 2002
TL;DR: The Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (RPA), P.L. 93-378, 88 Stat. 4765, as amended, has been updated by Smith et al. as discussed by the authors.
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The Ecology and Silviculture of Oaks
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the ecology of Oak-dominated ecosystems and its role in the development of natural stands, including self-thinning, self-growing, and stand density.
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The red maple paradox: What explains the widespread expansion of red maple in eastern forests?
TL;DR: Red maple has become nearly ubiquitous across sites of widely varying light, moisture, and nutrient availability and will probably continue to increase in dominance in the overstory during the next century, causing widespread replacement of the historically dominant trees of the forests of the eastern United States.