Increasingly detailed records of long‐term fire regime characteristics are needed to test
ecological concepts and inform natural resource management and policymaking. We …

Composition of southern Appalachian forests are influenced by disturbance and topography.
This study examined six stands in southwestern Virginia. Within each stand, a 0.3-ha plot …

There is increasing interest in the restoration of classic landscapes such as native
grasslands in the northeastern United States. This study characterizes the species …

Abstract Western New York has experienced extensive agricultural land abandonment since
the early 1900s. The objectives of this study were to (1) sample plots representing a …

Evidence for historical fire across the eastern deciduous biome spans several fields,
including paleoecology, fire scar analysis, witness tree studies, historical documents and …

A vegetation study was conducted within central Pennsylvania's Ridge and Valley Province
at the Mohn Mill natural area, an area that harbors the federally endangered northeastern …

The objective of this study was to provide stratigraphic data that could augment historic and
recent ecological information concerning the cause of the 20th century vegetation shift from …

Disturbance plays an important ecological role in determining the structure and species
composition of grassland communities. Xeric limestone prairies, a rare and threatened …

The historical ecology of Thompson Woods, a 4.1 ha forest remnant on the campus of
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, was investigated through stand structure analysis …

Habitat specificity of tree species has traditionally been determined by identifying
synchronous abiotic characteristics and species presence on the landscape. On a local …