Pyrophytic oak landscapes across the central and eastern United States are losing
dominance as shade-tolerant, fire-sensitive, or opportunistic tree species encroach into …

Reconstructing the human and natural environment of the Creek Indians in frontier Georgia,
Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, Robbie Ethridge illuminates a time of wrenching …

Fire exclusion in eastern North American Quercus–Carya woodlands has resulted in
overstory compositional changes, linked to altered fuel composition, structure, and …

In historically open-canopied and fire-dependent upland oak (Quercus spp.) forests of the
central and eastern United States, fire exclusion is contributing to an increase in competing …

Aim I detail several problems and solutions related to estimating pre‐settlement forest
density from land surveyors' bearing tree data. The data have a high value, so clarification of …

The phyllosphere contains a diverse bacterial community that can be intimately associated
with the host plant; however, few studies have examined how the phyllosphere community …

This research examined landscape indicators that signal ecological change in both
intensely used and lightly used lands at Fort Benning, Georgia. Changes in patterns of land …

The role of fire in the eastern broadleaf and Appalachian forest regions, until recently, was
poorly understood or minimally examined, as this region was long overlooked as a …

The removal of fire's influence on plant community succession has resulted in the near
disappearance of oak (Quercus spp.) woodlands and savannas from the Appalachian …

Current forests no longer resemble historical open forest ecosystems in the eastern United
States. In the absence of representative forest ecosystems under a continuous surface fire …