Upper Mississippi National Wildlife and Fish Refuge: McGregor District Mast Hardwood Floodplain Forest Community

Due to a gap in information on regeneration of hard-mast trees in the floodplain, interpretation was completed of existing 8“/pixel aerial imagery delineating a detailed hardwood forest spatial dataset within the floodplain forest of the Fish and Wildlife Upper Mississippi National Wildlife & Fish Refuge, McGregor District. The detailed map of bottomland hardwoods will allow for the identification of existing habitat and assess bottomland hardwood tree patterns to enable management of these areas.

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Floodplain Forest, Forest Restoration, Hardwoods, Illinois, Iowa, All tags... Mast Trees, McGregor District, Oak, Pool 10, Pool 11, Pool 9, Quercus bicolor, Regeneration, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Upper Mississippi River, Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife & Fish Refuge, Wisconsin, species diversity, Fewer tags

Oregon white oak (Quercus garryana) extent, North America

These maps are a digital representation of the individual tree species range maps of the Atlas of the United States Trees by Elbert L. Little, Jr. The atlas shows the natural distribution or range of the native tree species of North America. These coverages represent 3 volumes of the atlas.

Tags: DataBasin, Effects of change in air temp. and precip. on forests, NPLCC, North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, climate, All tags... conifers, garry oak, hardwoods, north america, oregon white oak, trees, vegetation, Fewer tags

Traits and Factors Catalog (TRAFAC): Hardwood specialists of North America

These data were compiled in support of the 'Predicting the next high-impact insect invasion: Elucidating traits and factors determining the risk of introduced herbivorous insects on North American native plants' project, supported by the U.S. Geological Survey John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis. The project working group compiled data for non-native insects herbivorous on one North American hardwood (i.e., woody angiosperm) family. Data were synthesized from existing resources for a variety of insect traits, traits of their North American hardwood host plants, divergence time between the North American host species and the host species in the insects' native range, and native insects that feed...

Tags: Botany, British Columbia, California, Canada, Connecticut, All tags... District of Columbia, Ecology, Forestry, Geography, Information Sciences, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Brunswick, New Jersey, North America, North American hardwoods, North Carolina, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Virginia, Washington, biogeography, biota, co-evolved, ecology, environmental impact, forest ecosystems, hardwood forests, hardwood pests, hardwoods, host range, host trees, impact, insect ecology, insect traits, insects, insects, invasive herbivorous insects, native insects, native range, native species, non-native insects, pests, traits, trees, vegetation, Fewer tags

Importance of succession, harvest, and climate change in determining future composition in U.S. Central Hardwood Forests

Abstract (from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/ES15-00238.1/abstract): Most temperate forests in U.S. are recovering from heavy exploitation and are in intermediate successional stages where partial tree harvest is the primary disturbance. Changes in regional forest composition in response to climate change are often predicted for plant functional types using biophysical process models. These models usually simplify the simulation of succession and harvest and may not consider important species-specific demographic processes driving forests changes. We determined the relative importance of succession, harvest, and climate change to forest composition changes in a 125-million ha area of the Central Hardwood...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Forests, Forests, Hardwoods, Landscapes, Northeast CASC