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Using Shelterwood Harvests and Prescribed Fire to Regenerate Oak Stands on Productive Upland Sites
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In this article, the authors tested the hypothesis that a shelterwood harvest of an oak-dominated stand, followed several years later by a prescribed fire, would adequately regenerate the stand.About:
This article is published in Forest Ecology and Management.The article was published on 1999-01-25. It has received 185 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Shelterwood cutting & Stand development.read more
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Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on flora
James K. Brown,Jane Kapler Smith +1 more
TL;DR: Brown et al. as discussed by the authors reviewed the effects of fire on flora and fuels and provided a state-of-the-art review about the ecological role of fire in ecosystems, including fire regime classification, autecological effects, fire regime characteristics and postfire plant community development.
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Contemporary forest restoration: A review emphasizing function
TL;DR: The science underpinning contemporary approaches to forest restoration practice is synthesized and some major approaches for altering structure in degraded forest stands are presented, and approaches for restoration of two key ecosystem processes, fire and flooding are described.
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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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Responses of hardwood advance regeneration to seasonal prescribed fires in oak-dominated shelterwood stands
TL;DR: Overall, prescribed fires improved oak advance regeneration with spring burning providing the most benefit, and this approach of following a shelterwood harvest with prescribed fire may be a viable method of regenerating oak-dominated stands on productive upland sites.
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Ecological Effects of Prescribed Fire Season: A Literature Review and Synthesis for Managers
TL;DR: In this article, historical and prescribed fire regimes for different regions in the continental United States were compared and literature on season of prescribed burning synthesized, and the effects of prescribed fire season appears, for many ecological variables, to be driven more by fire-intensity differences among seasons than by phenology or growth stage of organisms at the time of fire.
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The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492
TL;DR: In the early sixteenth century, the Native American landscape was a humanized landscape almost everywhere as mentioned in this paper, where forests had been modified, grasslands had been created, wild-life disrupted, and erosion was severe in places.
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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 cover types of the United States and Canada
TL;DR: Wilder and Beebe as mentioned in this paper published The Fragrant Garden, a book about sweet scented flowers and leaves, which is a collection of short stories about the fragrant garden.
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Tall understorey vegetation as a factor in the poor development of oak seedlings beneath mature stands
TL;DR: An experiment was designed to evaluate the impact of tall and low understorey vegetation on oak seedling development beneath mature stands on two sites in southwestern Wisconsin.
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Age structure and disturbance history of a southern appalachian virgin forest
TL;DR: Radial growth patterns reveal higher than average numbers of abrupt and sustained increases in growth rate in most decades of peak recruitment which, along with other evidence, suggest that disturbance was the principal causal factor.