Recently added articles from Castanea:
Species Assemblages of Tree Canopy Myxomycetes Related to Bark pH
Jun 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Acid deposition contributes to forest health concerns at high elevation sites in Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP). Bark samples were taken from living trees at three study sites: Abies fraseri and Picea rubens from high elevation sites near the Clingman's Dome area of ...
Bottomland Forests in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley Associated with the Endangered Lindera melissifolia
Jun 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Forest canopy and subcanopy data were collected from and compared among five disjunct bottomland hardwood forests in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, each with known occurrence of a population of the federally endangered shrub Lindera melissifolia. All study sites are ...
Life in the Slow Lane: Palmetto Seedlings Exhibit Remarkable Survival but Slow Growth in Florida's Nutrient-Poor Uplands
Jun 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT The palmettos Serenoa repens and Sabal etonia are foundation species in many peninsular Florida vegetative associations. We monitored survival and growth of palmetto seedlings using two cohorts found in different vegetative associations. Mixed-species cohorts containing both ...
Influence of Reproductive and Environmental Factors on Population Size of Wild Hyacinth [Camassia angusta (Engelm. and A. Gray) Blank. (Liliaceae)], an Illinois Endangered Species
Jun 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Wild hyacinth (Camassia angusta) is a perennial species native to mesic prairies of the midwestern and south-central United States. In Illinois, the only extant population of this state-endangered species is in a small section of degraded black-soil prairie along a railroad ...
Spatially Narrow Wet Prairies
Jun 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Wet prairies in the Southeast consist of floristically diverse grass-sedge ecosystems that are conspicuously lacking in woody species because of seasonal soil saturation and frequent fire. They occupy a landscape position between mesic, pyrogenic pine savannas and hydric swamps ...