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Displaying 1 - 10 of 63,068 Publications- Weed management is an integral practice for agriculture-, horticulture-, and forestry-related plant production systems. Weeds create similar problems in improved agroforestry cropping systems as in conventional agriculture and horticulture. While traditional chemical and mechanical weed management techniques are effective for these practices, they require a great deal of labor, are very costly, and can be detrimental to soil health and water quality. An alternative to traditional weed management techniques is the use of ground cover, known as cover crops, to control the spread and suppress th...AuthorsBrent S. DeBauche, Chung-Ho Lin, Elizabeth R. Rogers, Ryan A. Vinhal, Ronald S. Zalesny Jr.KeywordsSourceInternational Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)Year2025
- Planted forests account for 7 percent of the global forest area, covering 290 million hectares (ha) of land. About 131 million ha of planted forests are intensively cultivated for productive purposes with fast-growing trees (FGTs). Fast-growing trees have been developed and used for millennia to provide wood and non-wood products to rural communities and other direct and non-direct benefits to urban societies. Globally, FGT plantations comprise a variety of tree species in temperate, subtropical and tropical biomes. These belong to genera such as Populus, Salix, Paulownia, Pinus, Acacia, Casua...AuthorsR.S. Zalesny Jr., A. Barzagli, B. Caldwell, G. Minotta, G. Nervo, P. Paris, E.R. Rogers, F. SalbitanoKeywordsSourceFood and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsYear2025
- Accurate characterization of wood properties is important for informing urban forestry science, policy and management related to carbon cycling, ecosystem services modeling, and wood utilization. In this study, urban wood samples were collected and analyzed for basic specific gravity (SG) and ash content (AC), two important wood properties that inform biomass estimation and potential for biofuel feedstocks. Samples were collected in Baltimore, Maryland, USA across four urban site types from seven tree species commonly planted in urban settings. Results were compared with published values for f...AuthorsNancy Sonti, James A. Westfall, Michael C. Wiemann, Thomas L. EberhardtKeywordsSourceUrban EcosystemsYear2025
- Most research addressing land use change and forest management effects on soil carbon (C) is conducted at large or localized scales, rather than intermediate scales where management is planned and implemented. We assessed effects of land use and forest management on soil C stocks, for the Central Hardwoods ecoregion of the U.S., using meta-analysis, soil survey and national forest inventory databases to examine baseline controls on soil C stocks and their responses to land use and forest management. Biotic and geologic factors drive baseline variation in soil C stocks across the ecoregion, wit...AuthorsLucas E. Nave, Kendall DeLyser, Grant M. Domke, Scott M. Holub, John M. Kabrick, Adrienne B. Keller, Patricia Leopold, Matthew P. Peters, Kevin A. Solarik, Christopher W. SwanstonKeywordsSourceGeoderma RegionalYear2025
- Accurate accounting of greenhouse‐gas (GHG) emissions and removals is central to tracking progress toward climate mitigation and for monitoring potential climate‐change feedbacks. GHG budgeting and reporting can follow either the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change methodologies for National Greenhouse Gas Inventory (NGHGI) reporting or use atmospheric‐based “top‐down” (TD) inversions or process‐based “bottom‐up” (BU) approaches. To help understand and reconcile these approaches, the Second REgional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes study (RECCAP2) was established to quantify GHG emi...AuthorsBenjamin Poulter, Guillermo Murray‐Tortarolo, Daniel J. Hayes, Philippe Ciais, Robbie M. Andrew, Ana Bastos, Brendan Byrne, David Butman, Josep G. Canadell, Abhishek Chatterjee, Grant Domke, Andrew Feldman, Kelsey Foster, Neha Hunka, Robert B. Jackson, Werner A. Kurz, Ayia Lindquist, Maodian Liu, Ingrid Luijkx, Arnaud Mialon, Anna M. Michalak, John Miller, Wolfgang A. Obermeier, Naiqin Pan, James T. Randerson, Peter A. Raymond, Pierre Regnier, Laure Resplandy, Gerard Rocher‐Ros, Nemesio Rodriquez‐Fernandez, Judith Rosentreter, Julio César Salazar‐Neira, Suzanne E. Tank, Hanqin Tian, Rodrigo Vargas, Yohanna Villalobos, Jonathan A. Wang, Xinyuan Wei, Kimberly P. Wickland, Christopher Williams, Lisamarie Windham‐Myers, Christopher Woodall, Qing Ying, Zhen ZhangKeywordsSourceGlobal Biogeochemical CyclesYear2025
Bulk density calculation methods systematically alter estimates of soil organic carbon stocks in United States forests
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Soils are the largest terrestrial carbon sink on Earth, yet substantial uncertainty in the size and stability of this pool remains. Much of this uncertainty stems from the characterization of bulk density, which is the mass of a soil sample divided by its volume, a key property in the calculation of soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks. We used data from nearly 2900 plots in the United States (U.S.) Nationwide Forest Inventory to quantify SOC stocks in forests with three common methods of calculating soil bulk density. Mean SOC stocks calculated with these methods varied by up to 13 Mg ha− 1, a di...AuthorsAshley K. Lang, Melissa A. Pastore, Brian F. Walters, Grant M. DomkeKeywordsSourceBiogeochemistryYear2025- Aim: The urgency for remote, reliable and scalable biodiversity monitoring amidst mounting human pressures on ecosystems has sparked worldwide interest in Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM), which can track life underwater and on land. However, we lack a unified methodology to report this sampling effort and a comprehensive overview of PAM coverage to gauge its potential as a global research and monitoring tool. To address this gap, we created the Worldwide Soundscapes project, a collaborative network and growing database comprising metadata from 416 datasets across all realms (terrestrial, mar...AuthorsKevin F. A. Darras, Rodney A. Rountree, Steven L. Van Wilgenburg, Anna F. Cord, Frederik Pitz, Youfang Chen, Lijun Dong, Agnès Rocquencourt, Camille Desjonquères, Patrick Mauritz Diaz, Tzu‐Hao Lin, Théophile Turco, Louise Emmerson, Tom Bradfer‐Lawrence, Amandine Gasc, Sarah Marley, Marcus Salton, Laura Schillé, Paul J. Wensveen, Shih‐Hung Wu, Adriana C. Acero‐Murcia, Orlando Acevedo‐Charry, Matyáš Adam, Jacopo Aguzzi, Irmak Akoglu, M. Clara P. Amorim, Mina Anders, Michel André, Alexandre Antonelli, Leandro Aparecido Do Nascimento, Giulliana Appel, Stephanie Archer, Christos Astaras, Andrey Atemasov, Jamieson Atkinson, Joël Attia, Emanuel Baltag, Luc Barbaro, Fritjof Basan, Carly Batist, Julio Ernesto Baumgarten, Just T. Bayle Sempere, Kristen Bellisario, Asaf Ben David, Oded Berger‐Tal, Frédéric Bertucci, Matthew G. Betts, Iqbal S. Bhalla, Thiago Bicudo, Marta Bolgan, Sara Bombaci, Gerard Bota, Martin Boullhesen, Robert A. Briers, Susannah Buchan, Michal Budka, Katie Burchard, Giuseppa Buscaino, Alice Calvente, Marconi Campos‐Cerqueira, Maria Isabel Carvalho Gonçalves, Maria Ceraulo, Maite Cerezo‐Araujo, Gunnar Cerwén, Adams A. Chaskda, Maria Chistopolova, Christopher W. Clark, Kieran D. Cox, Benjamin Cretois, Chapin Czarnecki, Luis P. da Silva, Wigna da Silva, Laurence H. De Clippele, David de la Haye, Ana Silvia de Oliveira Tissiani, Devin de Zwaan, M. Eugenia Degano, Jessica Deichmann, Joaquin del Rio, Christian Devenish, Ricardo Díaz‐Delgado, Pedro Diniz, Dorgival Diógenes Oliveira‐Júnior, Thiago Dorigo, Saskia Dröge, Marina Duarte, Adam Duarte, Kerry Dunleavy, Robert Dziak, Simon Elise, Hiroto Enari, Haruka S. Enari, Florence Erbs, Britas Klemens Eriksson, Pınar Ertör‐Akyazi, Nina C. Ferrari, Luane Ferreira, Abram B. Fleishman, Paulo J. Fonseca, Bárbara Freitas, Nicholas R. Friedman, Jérémy S. P. Froidevaux, Svetlana Gogoleva, Carolina Gonzaga, José Miguel González Correa, Eben Goodale, Benjamin Gottesman, Ingo Grass, Jack Greenhalgh, Jocelyn Gregoire, Samuel Haché, Jonas Hagge, William Halliday, Antonia Hammer, Tara Hanf‐Dressler, Sylvain Haupert, Samara Haver, Becky Heath, Daniel Hending, Jose Hernandez‐Blanco, Dennis Higgs, Thomas Hiller, Joe Chun‐Chia Huang, Katie Lois Hutchinson, Carole HyacintheKeywordsSourceGlobal Ecology and Biogeography. 34(5): e70021.Year2025
- To reverse range-wide population declines, managers of black-tailed and mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) require information on the vital rates and life stages most influential to population growth to target effective management actions. We extracted black-tailed and mule deer vital rates from a range-wide literature review and used hierarchical models to summarize vital rates, their variability, and how they correlate with one another. We then used matrix models and life-stage simulation analysis to determine the individual vital rates that contributed most to annual population growth rate (i....AuthorsJoel Ruprecht, Tavis D. Forrester, Darren A. Clark, Michael J. Wisdom, Joshua B. Smith, Taal LeviKeywordsSourceThe Journal of Wildlife Management. 89(2): e22690.Year2025
Spatial and temporal partitioning between eastern gray and fox squirrels in a Central Hardwood forest
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Congeneric fox squirrels (Sciurus niger) and eastern gray squirrels (S. carolinensis) compete for resources within North American temperate forests. Both species exhibit regional variation in morphology and behavior—potentially due to differences in geography, community composition, or ecological pressures between forested regions. While many have studied these species in other forested regions of the United States, recent assessments of partitioning between these species in Central Hardwood forests remain scarce. We investigated spatial and temporal partitioning between squirrel species using...AuthorsJustin Remmers, Damon Lesmeister, Clayton K. NielsenSourceJournal of Mammalogy. 106(2): 323-338.Year2025- Evidence appears to be building that direct exposure to natural landscapes characterized by significant green cover, such as forests, can help to reduce chronic health conditions such as obesity, stress, hypertension, chronic cardiovascular conditions, depression, anxiety, cancer, and diabetes. One way to encourage greater exposure to nature may be through the use of nature prescriptions, whereby clinicians formally recommend (or prescribe) time in nature to their patients. Based on self-reported data, we describe the implementation and lessons learned from a pilot field experiment examining t...AuthorsRandall Bluffstone, Ma Chan, Cort Cox, Melinda M. Davis, Caitlin Dickinson, Sahan T.M. Dissanayake, Jeffrey Kline, Citlactli Carrera Lopez, Himani Ojha, Sterling Stokes, Saurabh S. Thosar, Srilakshmi VedantamKeywordsSourceForests. 16(5): 752.Year2025
